Safety Tip ?

Originally Posted by BigV

People.

You use cruise control when you want to pay less attention to your driving, yes? Then please, for pity's sake, when it's raining, turn off the cruise control, and pay attention.

I don't need to enforce this rule--Darwin has described the penalty for failure.

I would never use cruise control in rain. I also understand about downshifting and getting out of cruise constrol on steep grades. I just wondered if the cruise control wouldn't turn itself off in the situation described in the OP. I guess not if the car has an automatic transmission.

I actually use cruise control when I want to pay MORE attention to my driving, not less. I'll put it on when going down a stretch of the interstate, especially after dark, where I don't have to be glancing down and checking my speedometer for my lead foot tendencies and can instead concentrate on the road.

The Pueblo-Walsenburg stretch of I-25 is annoying because the change in grade is gradual but steady. The first couple of times I drove it in my current car, it seemed like I should be able to make it in 5th gear just fine, but the laws of gravity and a four cylinder engine would always catch up with me near the exit for the bustling metropolis of Rye. I have resigned my self to just down shifting to 4th (and out of cruise control) when I reach a certain spot near the beginning of the long, slow climb.