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1:Introduction
2:What isCruise Control?
3:Principles
4:Functional aspects
5:What is Sudden Acceleration?
6:Incidence & Examples
7:Internal 
failure mechanisms
8:Discussion of Failure Mechanisms
9:Links & References
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A Note on Automobile Cruise Control Faults and Sudden Acceleration

by Dr Antony Anderson C.Eng FIEE

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
  7. Cruise Control : Possible internal intermittent failure mechanisms
  8. Cruise Control : Discusssion of failure mechanisms 
  9. Cruise Control : Links and References
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0:Cruise Control Home
1:Introduction
2:What isCruise Control?
3:Principles
4:Functional aspects
5:What is Sudden Acceleration?
6:Incidence & Examples
7:Internal 
failure mechanisms
8:Discussion of Failure Mechanisms
9:Links & References

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