Driving in the rain. Could save your life!!!

From: Alfred Clayton <clayalf@msn.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM 

Gosh knows how much rain we have been getting................. Driving in the rain --  this may save your life GOOD VISION IN A DOWNPOUR How to achieve good vision while  driving during a heavy downpour. We are not sure why it is so effective;  just try this method when it rains  heavily. This method was given me  by a Police friend who had  experienced and confirmed it.  It is useful....even driving at night.  One method used by Canadian Military  Drivers for years. Most of the motorists would turn  on HIGH or FASTEST SPEED of  the wipers during heavy downpour,  yet the visibility in front of the  windshield is still bad...... In the event you face such a situation,  just try your SUN GLASSES  (any model will do), and miracle!  All of a sudden, your visibility in  front of your windshield is perfectly  clear, as if there is no rain. 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 "kickup" 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 for a similar reason, why  "Fog" lights must make WHITE light,  or else are useless in FOG. Those YELLOW "FOG"lights are  great in those blinding night  SNOWstorms, and those big  snowflakes become virtually invisible. But YELLOW is useless  in RAIN, FOG. This next warning is a another  good one! 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 Kinburn, Ontario was traveling  between Kinburn & Ottawa. 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  OPP Officer 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 Officer 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 OPP  Officer that was exactly what  had occurred. The Officer 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. http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/wetroad.asp The only person the accident  victim found, who knew this  (besides the officer), was a man  who had a similar accident,  totaled 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. If you send this  to 15 people and only one of  them doesn't know about this,  then it was all worth it.. You  might have saved a life.