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Originally Posted by jharbert
I wish my car had two extra features: A selectable acceleration rate for the cruise control because the normal not-quite-flooring-it amount is often too much
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Yah, that might not be too hard to do. Or at least a feedback mechanism to tell you how your fuel consumption to power ratio is doing while accelerating.
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Originally Posted by jharbert
and a computer controlled pulse and glide feature.
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A lone car on a flat hiway, sure, too easy, especially if you solve the most efficient acceleration problem above. But I find so much of when I pulse and how much I pulse and when I glide and how long I glide is determined by the environment (traffic,hills,wind,etc) that such a thing would not be practical till computers can see and understand what they are seeing and make reasonably good predictions based on past experiences.