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But didn’t you read…..the car ‘flew’
through the air……ergo, it was however briefly, a glider and
therefore worthy of this list. Now
that I’ve broken my vow and responded to this thread, I have to say that
the problem is not the car being in cruise, It’s the brain of the nut behind the
wheel being in cruise…..whatever happened to ‘driving according to
the prevailing conditions’? Using
cruise in the rain could be considered quite sensible if the speed was set
accordingly and the driver was prepared to avoid driving in the usual wheel marks where water pools,
i.e. it is a good idea to drive a car in what is known as the ‘awake’
sate. Perhaps the danger of ‘cruise’ is, as yet, it is a simple speed
control, not an auto pilot…………”I’ve just
set cruise, I think I’ll just have a little nap…..” If
water is sheeting off the road…..cruise or no, it is a fair bet that a
spot of soaring will be on order! Sadly,
it seems that the more cars are engineered to stay on the road and be user
friendly, the more drivers seem hell bent on leaving it to the cars to stay on the road…..now as for
gliders I
wonder if there is a correlation between design stability in an airframe and pilot
performance. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ashley bowyer I thought this was a gliding
newsgroup and not about our cars. Can we get back on topic and talk about
gliding. --
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