On Feb 16, 10:24Â*pm, " wrote:
On Feb 16, 1:27�pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:





In article , mm wrote:
Someone wrote me:
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

That is physically impossible. Think about it: if the tires no longer have
contact with the pavement, they *cannot* accellerate the car. They'll just sit
there and spin. Undoubtedly, the *indicated* speed on the speedometer will
increase, but equally certainly, the *actual* speed will decrease slightly.

making you take off like an airplane.

Also physically impossible.

She told the patrolman that was
exactly what had occurred.

While that might have *seemed* to have happened, it is not possible that it
actually did.

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Regards,
� � � � Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

well cruise controls work on oe basic safety idea, anything wierd
happens and the driver will go for brakes. just touch them and cruise
is turned off.

I use cruise only on wide open roads with little traffic, never in bad
or rainey weather or much traffic at all.

i too believe people can get lulled into a false dream like state.

its a known fact called highway hypnosis- Hide quoted text -

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Isn't this the problem that caused the accident that caused Ed Smith,
well known Newfoundland columnist and educator to be involved in a
very serious and near fatal accident several years ago.

He is now a paraplegic and uses a special computer to 'write' and
communicate?

Seem to recall that comment after that accident included advice to
'never to use cruise control on icy slippery/roads'.

The fact that cruise control was was engaged at the time appeared to
have contributed to, if not caused, vehicle to become uncontrollable
and drive off thr road.

Our vehicle has CC; don't like it and have never used it, under any
conditions.
If we ever did so it would be only in completely dry and open traffic
conditions.

I do know one person who disconnected their CC after a close call when
it did not disengage quickly or correctly!

Comment or correction welcomed.