Wonder how many people know about this?



A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago and Totaled her car. A resident of Kilgore , Texas she was traveling between Gladewater & Kilgore. 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! When she explained to the highway patrolman what had happened,he told her something that every driver should know -



NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON.



She thought she was being cautious by setting the cruise

control and maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain. But the

highway patrolman told her that 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

take off like an airplane.



She told the patrolman that was exactly what had occurred. The patrolman said this warning should be listed, on the

driver's seat sun-visor - NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY, along with the airbag warning.





NOTE: Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna Limited XLE) will

not allow you to set the cruise cont rol when the windshield wipers

are on. (SUE) sic.

Thanks Vivian for this info, i thought that using cruise control is like letting a dummy drive you, until a friend of mine told me that you can use it, if you are on highway and you want to rest your leg.I use to have a sore leg after driving in flat shoes for six hours with intervals, but then when i started driving in high heels every thing was Ok because my foot was resting on the heel