Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC)

Adaptive cruise control is a smarter version of ordinary cruise control. As well as holding a set speed, it uses sensors to keep a chosen distance from the car in front, automatically slowing when traffic ahead slows and speeding back up to your set speed when the road clears.

This makes it far more useful in real traffic. Plain cruise control needs you to cancel and re-set every time the car ahead changes pace; adaptive cruise handles that gap for you, smoothing out the constant small adjustments of motorway driving.

It is a driver aid, not autopilot. You still steer, stay alert and remain responsible; the system manages speed and following distance within limits, and you take over whenever the situation calls for it.

On a busy Moroccan motorway it takes real strain out of a long drive. As with any assistance feature, get a feel for how it reacts — how hard it brakes, how it resumes — early on, so its automatic responses reassure rather than surprise you.