[GeoStL] Re: PLEASE READ
- From: "Robert Oelschlaeger" <roelschlaeger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:26:45 -0500
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Thanks, Bernie.
Read the Snopes note referenced by Bernie at
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/wetroad.asp
Bob (aka roelsch)
On 3/21/07, M. Bollinger <lazylightning3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> This is totally true. I watched a guy in front of me do this very thing
> about two months ago. He flipped his Explorer but ended up ok. Also, the
> Boone County State Representative had the same thing happen to her on the
> I-70 Minneola hill back in the early 90's. She lost control, hit the rocks
> in the center of the highway and died.
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bernie <happykraut@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:50:43 PM
> Subject: [GeoStL] PLEASE READ
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> Subject: NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON.
>
> NEVER KNEW THIS BEFORE...
> I 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. We tell
> our
> teenagers to set the cruise control
> and drive a safe speed - but we don't tell them to use the cruise control
> only when the pavement is dry.
> The only person the accident victim found, who knew this (besides the
> patrolman), was a man who had had a similar
> accident, totaled his car and sustained severe injuries.
> If you send this to 15 people and only one of them doesn't know about
> this,
> then it was all worth it. You might have saved a life.
> NOTE:
> Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna Limited XLE) will not allow you to
> set
> the cruise control when the windshield wipers are on.
>
> I checked it out on Snopes. It is true. Bernie
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