Important auto safety advisery PLEASE READ !!!

[Ragenrat]

GOOD TO KNOW .....Safety information very few people know about !!!!
Please tell your family and friends You might just save someones life!!!

True Story
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> > I wonder how many people know about
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> > this ~ A 36 year old female had an
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> > accident several weeks ago and totaled
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> > her car. A resident of Kilgore,
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> > Texas she was traveling between
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> > Gladewater & Kilgore. It was raining,
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> > though not excessively, when her car
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> > suddenly began to hydro-plane and
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> > literally flew through the air. She was not
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> > seriously injured but very
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> > stunned at the sudden occurrence!
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> > When she explained to the highway
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> > patrolman what had happened he told
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> > her something that every driver should
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> > know - NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH
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> > YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She thought
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> > she was being cautious by setting the
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> > cruise con trol and maintaining a safe
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> > consistent speed in the rain.
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> > But the highway patrolman told her that
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> > if the cruise control is on when your car
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> > begins to hydro-plane and your tires lose
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> > contact with the pavement, your car will
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> > accelerate to a higher rate of speed
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> > making you take off like an airplane.
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> > She told the patrolman that was exactly
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> > what had occurred.
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> > The patrolman said this warning should be
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> > listed, on the driver's seat sun-visor -
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> > NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN
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> > THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY,
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> > along with the airbag warning. We tell our
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> > teenagers to set the cruise control and
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> > drive a safe speed - but we don't tell
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> > them to use the cruise control only when
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> > the pav ement is dry.
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> > The only person the accident victim
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> > found, who knew this (besides the
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> > patrolman), was a man who had had
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> > a similar accident, totaled his car and
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> > sustained severe injuries.
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> > If you send this to several people and only
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> > one of them doesn't know about this,
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> > then it was all worth it.
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> > NOTE: Some vehicles (like the Toyota
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> > Sienna Limited XLE) will not allow you
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> > to set the cruise control when the
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> > windshield wipers are on.

[72combo]

My kids know, my daughter doesnt have it and my son doesnt use it. That Toyota at the end was a recall....LOL J/K seriously good info.

[Sport/Truck]

I'll add you shouldn't use cruise control in mountains either.