Urban Myth or True Fact?

 Subject: Cruise Control Warning

   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 Kilo , Texas , she was traveling between
  Glade water & Kilo. It was raining, though
  not excessively, when her car suddenly began to
  hydroplane 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 had thought she  was being cautious by setting the cruise control an maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain. But the highway patrolman told her that if the cruise control is on and your car begins to hydroplane -- when your tires lose contact with the pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and 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 survivor - 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 a similar accident, totaled his car and sustained severe injuries.