Patent ID: 7813861

Claim:
A cruise control device for a motor vehicle, the cruise control device comprising: an activation device attached to one of a steering column assembly and a steering wheel of the motor vehicle and is a key button, by activating said activation device it is possible to transfer the cruise control device, from a switched off operating state into a switched on standby operating state, and by a further activation of said activation device it is possible to transfer the cruise control device from the switch on standby operating state to a switched on control operating state; a storage device storing a stored state of the cruise control device and coupled to said activation device, the stored state reflecting whether the cruise control device assumes the switched off operating state or a switched on operating state being either the switched on standby operating state or the switched on control operating state, immediately before or when an ignition device of the motor vehicle is switched off; and a readout device coupled to said storage device for reading out the stored state of the cruise control device from said storage device when or immediately after the ignition device of the motor vehicle is switched on, and if according to a read out state of the stored state, the cruise control device had the switched on operating state immediately before or when the ignition device is last switched off, the cruise control device being transferred automatically to the switched on standby operating state.