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A lot of newer vehicle now come with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), which uses radar to follow the car in front of you. So all you have to do (in general) is steer, as your car will automatically slow down if you catch up to a slower car. And it will automatically speed up once the coast is clear.

I’ve had a rental car or two with the feature, and I preferred normal cruise control because I zoned out too much with the ACC.

But I now have an idea of a new feature which will improve my life. I got this idea when I was going 55 mph down a road and came upon someone going 42 mph.

My idea is this: cars should have a radar facing backwards. Then a slow car would get notified of traffic coming up behind them and the cruise control could kick in and accelerate the car to a reasonable speed.

This is, of course, the desire of all tailgaters. And as such it would probably be abused. And the driver of the slow car might not know what was happening. It’s probably a bad idea.

Alternate method: instead of accelerating the slow car, the rear radar would put on the hazards and pull the car onto the shoulder, allowing the faster traffic to pass.

That’s probably a bad idea too.

When I am walking somewhere, whether it’s in a store or an amusement park or just about anywhere, I walk faster than most people (“I walk with purpose” is my usual phrase).

If I end up stuck behind someone who is ambling or meandering, and I am forced to walk at their pace, I will amuse myself by pretending to go in slow motion. Maybe “pretending” is the wrong word, because I really will be moving in slow motion. But it takes my mind off the problem at hand (slow moving people blocking my way) and it’s usually only for a few steps (say until we get to the end of the aisle and the path opens up).

What I need to do is find the vehicular equivalent of moving my legs and arms in slow motion. What could I do with my car to pretend to go in slow motion? I haven’t come up with any good ideas. The only options are slowing way down then speeding up, which might come across as too aggressive, or weaving back and forth, which might get me pulled over for DUI.

What usually ends up happening is my wife sings the “Herbert the Snail” song at me. Not to me, at me.