ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
Judging by the discussions I’ve seen on the blogosphere, we motorcyclists remain quite technologically conservative. Neanderthals, really. According to my ad hoc survey — which comprised reading comment sections — about half of us are dead set against the new adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems recently launched by BMW and Ducati (soon to be joined by Kawasaki, KTM and Indian).
This antipathy to things electronic isn’t anything new to us bikers. Anti-lock brakes were initially greeted as unnecessary and even dangerous, with Harley riders seemingly rejoicing in their preference to “lay ‘er
