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Throttle controls in addition to the gas pedal were an early form of cruise control. The 1940 Ford's had a throttle knob as an option. As stated they didn't compensate for hills and I doubt pre war throttle controls would deactivate on braking like modern cruise systems (though that might not have mattered with the nearly all cars then being manual).
All my cars have cruise control. I typically don't use it unless I'm on an open/relaxing interstate highway drive over an hour long... Especially if I'm going somewhere in my safety toe work shoes....those things make my legs hurt if I work the pedals with them too long. If traffic is bad or I'm late and need to drive faster than traffic I don't use cruise.
I like cruise better than a lot of the modern autopilot/braking/lane departure nanny systems because you can at least turn cruise off... From what I understand you have to yank fuses and things like that to defeat the nannies in newer cars.
I'm not gonna text and drive so if I'm drifting lanes or doing something sketchy I damn well mean to be doing it and I don't want no stinking computer getting in my way.
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