As good as the adaptive cruise control is in our Jeep, I notice a flaw. It will take over the throttle and brakes and maintain a safe distance on the highway or around town. It will go from zero to sixty and back again in stop and go, or slow and go, traffic, with no human intervention. What it won’t do though, is recognize a stationary object as a hazard. Activate cruise control while there is no car in front of you, or while there is a moving car in front of you, no problem. But if you and the car in front of you are approaching a stoplight, and there are cars stopped, waiting for the light to turn, and the car in front of you pops over to the next lane, the cruise control doesn’t see the stopped cars as a problem. It starts to accelerate back up to speed. When that happens, presumably the next safety feature, collision avoidance, would apply the brakes at the last moment and avoid an accident, but I’ve chosen not to test that system yet; I apply the brakes instead.
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