Rolling Back the Rolling Stop but Cruising with Cruise Control

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You know Seth Weintraub over at Electrek made a really good point last Friday on their podcast about rolling back the rolling stop. He pointed out that if lawmakers are so concerned about the rolling stop at 2 mph breaking the law, why are they not holding the same standard for things like a cars cruise control being able to be set higher than the speed limit.

Cars for decades have been able to set their cruise control over the speed limit and driving over the speed limit is against the law. So why now when a person tell their car to allow an automated rolling stop is it an issue. I think it’s politically motivated.
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...because the speedometer isn't required to be within but 10% which is easily 5mph at highway speed. Secondly, speed needs to be fluid enough that cars can catch up and lag back as they navigate each other. You literally cannot keep up with traffic using traffic-aware cruise control set at the speed you're traveling. Every little delay will ripple back through traffic increasing the distance between cars instead of keeping up the throughput of the lane.

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