Magda and Chris' daughter Maura Lisa at 2 months.
Make
sure you always have a pair of SUN GLASSES in your car, as you are not only
helping yourself to drive safely with good vision, but also might save your
friend's life by giving him this idea..
Try it
yourself and share it with your friends!
Amazing,
you still see the drops on the windshield, but not the sheet of rain falling.
You can
see where the rain bounces off the road. It works to eliminate the
"blindness" from passing semi's spraying you too - or the "kick-up" if you are
following a semi or car in the rain. They ought to teach that little tip in
driver's training. It really does work.
And I
wonder how many people know this:
A 36
year old female had an accident several weeks ago and totalled her car.
A
resident of Kilgore, Texas she was travelling 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 USETHE 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 a similar accident, totalled his car and sustained severe
injuries.
NOTE:
Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna
Limited
XLE) will not allow you to set the cruise control when the windshield wipers
are on.