The Adaptive Cruise Control test: are you buying newness or substance?

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When a new car is sold on Adaptive Cruise Control, we fixate on the ACC and forget to ask about the engine. This is how every 'new is better' pitch works — it surfaces a small list of differentiators and hides the long list of capabilities the incumbent already owns. The diagnostic: count the differentiators (often 4) against the omitted capabilities (often 100). If the new is sold on trivia, you're looking at the cruise control, not the engine.

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