These informal notes consider Automobile Cruise Control and Sudden Acceleration from the viewpoint of an electrical engineer with a control engineering background. They  represent tentative, independent and personal opinions that should not be taken as in any sense definitive or representative.

1. Introduction
2. Cruise Control : What is it?
3. Cruise Control : Principles of operation and implementation  
4. Cruise Control : Functional aspects : Possible modes of failure
5. Cruise Control : Sudden Acceleration : what is it?
6. Cruise Control : Frequency of sudden acceleration incidents and alleged examples
• Additional notes : Examples of intermittent failures on control systems outside the automobile industry
7. Cruise Control : Possible internal intermittent failure mechanisms
8. Cruise Control : Discusssion of failure mechanisms 
9. Cruise Control : Links and References
• 9.5 Sudden acceleration problems with particular makes of vehicle