Cruise control is something a person either loves and uses all the time,or like myself rarely use it and feel like it makes a person less alert. The odd thing about cruise control is it was invented by a blind man. Ralph Teetor was blinded at age 5 but that didn't stop him from attending college,becoming a mechanical engineer and an inventor. Teetor, after a particularly jerky car trip with his lawyer came up with a device to regulate car speed without the driver touching the gas pedal. Some of the early names for his invention included "controlomatic","speedostat",and "auto pilot". Teetor felt his blindness gave him an edge with his inventions as he was free to visualize what he wanted to accomplish instead of being restricted to what was in front of him.
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