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BMW Debuts Adaptive Cruise Control
A
daptive cruise control has
been a long time coming for
motorcycles, and BMW became
the first to develop the technol-
ogy in its new Active Cruise
Control (ACC) system.
ACC was developed with
commercial partner Bosch and
mixes traditional cruise control
with distance control to rec-
ognize a vehicle in front of the
motorcycle and maintains a gap
between the two.
"The many years of experi-
ence with passenger car driver
assistance systems of both com-
panies could be applied selec-
tively here and used for motor-
cycle applications," BMW said in
a press release. "The new ACC
provides maximum comfort for
the demanding touring motorcy-
clist by automatically regulating
the speed set by the rider and
the distance to the vehicle driv-
ing in front. The system auto-
matically regulates the vehicle
speed when the distance to the
vehicle in front is reduced and
keeps the distance defined by
the rider. This distance can be
varied in three stages. Both the
riding speed as well as the dis-
tance to the vehicle in front can
be set conveniently using a but-
ton. The individual settings are
displayed on the TFT instrument
cluster. The new BMW Motorrad
ACC has two selectable control
characteristics: comfortable or
dynamic, in which the accelera-
tion and deceleration behavior
is changed accordingly. The
distance control can also be de-
activated in order to be able to
use the Dynamic Cruise Control
(DCC)." CN
