10/18/2026
I am absolutely beyond furious right now. I set my cruise control to 70 MPH in my Toyota and trusted the technology like they advertise, and next thing I know the car is going 74 MPH by itself and I pass a cop sitting on the side of the highway. I get pulled over immediately, and I told the officer straight up that this is NOT my fault, the cruise control accelerated on its own. He didn’t care at all and still wrote me a speeding ticket like I was the one controlling the throttle. This is completely unacceptable. If Toyota is going to put all this adaptive cruise control, lane assist, radar, GR-Four, computer driving nonsense in the car, then the car should be responsible when it breaks the law, not me. I bought this vehicle under the impression that the speed you set is the speed it goes, not whatever the computer feels like doing that day. Now I’m stuck with a ticket, higher insurance, and points on my record because of a malfunctioning system. That sounds like false advertising, product defect, negligence, and fraud to me. I did not manually accelerate, I did exactly what the manual says, and the car still sped up on its own. At this point I’m seriously considering calling a lawyer and looking into lemon law, because if the cruise control can’t even hold the speed I set, then the whole vehicle is unsafe. Toyota needs to either pay this ticket, fix the car, or buy it back, because I did not sign up to get cited by the police because their software can’t follow the speed limit.