Patent ID: 8818678

Claim:
A control module-implemented method to selectively prevent a vehicle from resuming a vehicle set speed stored in memory of a cruise control system, comprising: the control module configured to execute the following steps, comprising: monitoring a vehicle speed; monitoring an accumulated distance traveled by the vehicle when the vehicle speed is within a low speed range; only when the vehicle speed no longer remains within the low speed range for an elapsed time period exceeding a maximum low speed violation time threshold, resetting the monitored accumulated travel distance until the monitored vehicle speed is within the low speed range; only when the vehicle speed is within the low speed range; comparing the accumulated distance to a minimum travel distance; and only when the accumulated distance exceeds the minimum travel distance, monitoring a vehicle turning maneuver; and only when the vehicle speed is less than a predetermined vehicle speed threshold, wherein the predetermined vehicle speed threshold is greater than an upper limit of the low speed range: comparing the accumulated distance to a threshold slow zone maximum distance; and only when the accumulated distance does not exceed the threshold slow zone maximum distance, comparing the vehicle turning maneuver to a threshold slow zone maneuver; and selectively preventing resumption of the vehicle set speed if the vehicle turning maneuver exceeds the threshold slow zone maneuver.