Blind Man Creates Cruise Control

Ralph Teetor, the blind inventor who created cruise control in the 1940s, came up with the idea after riding with his lawyer, a talkative man who sped up and slowed down while conversing. The 1958 Chrysler Imperial, New Yorker and Windsor models were the first cars to come equipped with Teetor’s invention. In 1960, Cadillac adopted the mechanism for its entire line of cars.

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