This email has been making the rounds:
A woman had an accident and totaled her car. It was raining, though not excessively, when her car suddenly began to hydro-plane and literally flew through the air. She was not seriously injured but very stunned at the sudden occurrence!
The highway patrolman on the scene told her something that every driver should know: NEVER USE YOUR CRUISE CONTROL IN THE RAIN OR SNOW — OR ON WET OR SLIPPERY PAVEMENT.
The lady thought she was being cautious by setting the cruise control and maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain. Not so.
According to the highway patrolman: if the cruise control is on when your car begins to hydro-plane and your tires lose contact with the pavement,
your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed making you lose control.
NOTE: Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna Limited XLE) will not allow you to set the cruise control when the windshield wipers are on.
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Ken’s Take: This may be an urban myth, but I doubt it — makes too much sense.
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January 2, 2009 at 2:34 pm |
The story is a little exaggerated but the safety risk is real – check out http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/wetroad.asp
for more info
January 3, 2009 at 7:29 am |
Yeah – snopes.com is always the first place to go when you see a chain e-mail like that.