The first minister compared the system to having control of a car's steering wheel "but somebody else pushes the pedals".

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The auto industry has intensified its research on how to link cruise control, steering, brakes and the cameras and sensors used for collision-avoidance systems into an integrated system able to guide a car safely.

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Combined with standard stability control that uses the antilock braking system to keep the car headed in the direction you're steering, we found the W8 unstoppable, even during a near-whiteout snowstorm that had a lot of SUV drivers skidding all over the road.

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The object information is then processed and passed on to the Continental Motion Domain Controller to control the vehicle's longitudinal and lateral motion via signals to the engine, the brakes and the steering system.

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