The Blind Man Who Invented Cruise Control

Ralph Teetor lost his sight as a small boy, yet he became an engineer and the president of a major auto parts company. He also invented the device that holds your car at a steady speed. This is the story of the Speedostat, the Chrysler Auto-Pilot, and how cruise control became part of almost every car. Sources: Wikipedia: Ralph Teetor National Inventors Hall of Fame: Ralph Teetor 99 Percent Invisible: Speed Lock, the blind engineer who brought cruise control to modern cars Automotive Hall of Fame: Ralph Teetor Jalopnik: Chrysler debuted Auto-Pilot technology way back in 1958 Wikipedia: Adaptive cruise control Image credits (resized and cropped for video): Maps: Natural Earth (public domain). --- Voiceover is produced with AI text-to-speech. Licensed photos are credited above; other photos are courtesy of their respective owners; archival film is public domain. #history #cars #RayStricklandCars