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Ralph Teetor (August 17, 1890 – February 15, 1982) was a prolific inventor who invented cruise control. He was the longtime president of the automotive parts manufacturer The Perfect Circle Co. (acquired in 1963 by Dana Holding Corporation , then sold to Mahle GmbH in 2007) in Hagerstown, Indiana , a manufacturer of piston rings .
Modern cruise control (also known as a speedostat or tempomat) was invented in 1948 by the blind inventor and mechanical engineer Ralph Teetor. [4] [5] He came up with the idea due to being frustrated by his driver's habit of speeding up and slowing down as he talked.
Cruise control automatically controls the rate of motion of a motor vehicle. The driver sets the speed and the system will take over the throttle of the car to maintain the same speed. Cruise control was invented in 1945 by a blind inventor and mechanical engineer named Ralph Teetor. His idea was born out of the frustration of riding in a car ...
Ralph R. Teetor was "one of the nation's best known automotive engineers" of his time. Now his story is being told. Documentary on Ralph R. Teetor, inventor of cruise control, to be screened in ...
The first ADAS system was cruise control, which was invented in 1948 by Ralph Teetor. Trials began in the 1950s. The first semi-autonomous car was developed in 1977, by Japan's Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. [17] It required specially marked streets that were interpreted by two cameras on the vehicle and an analog computer.
The Automotive Hall of Fame was founded on October 18, 1939, in New York City by a group called the "Automobile Old Timers." [4] Its original mission was to perpetuate the memories of early automotive pioneers and to honor people from all parts of the auto industry worldwide.
The modern cruise control system, which controls actual vehicle speed, traces its roots to blind inventor Ralph Teetor, who invented the system [44] in 1945. It was until 1958 that the new cruise control, then dubbed "Auto-piolt" [45] was offered on Imperial and select Chrysler vehicles.
Ralph Teetor, inventor of cruise control and president of the Perfect Circle Corporation. Media. Radio. WBST (91.1 FM): Repeater for National Public Radio ...