Can We Turn off Adaptive Cruise Control?

[kapix]

My recent holiday travels took me across the Pennsylvania mountains through a 'slushy' snow storm. A lot of 18-wheelers and Mother Nature conspired to coat the front of my '24 Air Touring with a lot of slush. This, of course, made all of the front sensors useless and caused the Adaptive Cruise Control to turn off. I then had to manually control my speed. This is perfectly understandable.

Pulling off to the side of I-80 in a snow storm to clear slush from the front of the car seemed like the most ridiculous thing that I could think of at the time.

What I don't understand is why a "normal, dumb" cruise control was not available to me. Sure, I'd have to "manually" pay attention to my speed and the traffic in front of me but when don't I?

Should a "normal, dumb" cruise control be a fallback option to Adaptive Cruise Control? Is it, in fact, available?

 

[Pragmatic]

I don't know of any car that allows regular cruise control when the car has adaptive CC. Probably for liability reasons.

 

[Adnillien]

I don't know of any car that allows regular cruise control when the car has adaptive CC. Probably for liability reasons.

My Grand Cherokee does, it seems like a reasonable thing to do.

 

[kapix]

I don't know of any car that allows regular cruise control when the car has adaptive CC. Probably for liability reasons.

I don't understand the liability issue. I'd expect that, of the two, standard cruise control would be safer as it's simpler. No?

 

[Pragmatic]

Glad to hear. I've driven some Hondas and Subarus that I couldn't get regular CC when the sensors had issues. But then they were other people cars so I could have been missing something.