My wife got this in the email the other day and I wondered if it is true or not..There are two bits of advice..one is easy enough to check out
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10-10-2011, 11:59 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Is this true?
My wife got this in the email the other day and I wondered if it is true or not..There are two bits of advice..one is easy enough to check out but not so with the other..
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 told by a Police friend who had experienced and confirmed it. It is useful....even driving at night. 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.. This warning is a 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 Kilgore , Texas she was traveling 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, 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. |
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The sunglasses setup does actually work, depending on the time of day. Polarized will probably work better than non-polarized, but I have done it quite a few times.
Believe it or not, I actually have used them at night too. My night vision is bad and I'm very sensitive to light due to a buttload of eye surgeries. I haven't done it very often and only if there are a lot of oncoming cars. Also in agreement with the cruise control info. |
10-10-2011, 04:22 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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its all about situation on this.
if its somehow raining and still quite bright and/or the other cars lights are bright, the water does funky **** with the light and makes visibility harder. Polarized glasses will cut that out so while its slightly darker, overall things are clearer. Now, it doesnt help if its really dark and raining and your sunglasses are also really dark. Essentially its just like getting rid of glare in a way. Ive done this before once or twice when it was somehow raining really hard but the sun was shining really bright. |
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Rain X
I used rain x but discovered a much better solution...take some powdered cleaner.. like AJAX and clean the windows with a sponge and this power and of course some water.. scrub the windows good...rinse and then take some rubbing alcohol and put it on a cloth and clean the wipers with this..you will be very surprised at how good this works ..much better and longer than Rain X.. let me know how it works for you
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Like someone said already just use rainX
cruise control will cause an accident when you hydroplane becuz when it senses your speed slow down from your set speed, it corrects by speeding up. rest of the picture is obvious. |
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I don't know about the cruise control thing. This might be outdated conventional wisdom. Without any driver aids, if the cruise control senses a drop in speed, it increases throttle to compensate. If the slow-down is due to wheel slippage, then it makes the situation worse. But consider if the VDC is on. If the tires slip, power is cut. Does the cruise control then trump the VDC? Probably not. Worst case, they cancel each out -- which might still be bad. But in all likelyhood the cruise control is cut if VDC kicks in.
My Mazda 3 has neither stability control nor traction control so I definitely keep the cruise control off when it rains. In my Z, I don't think I've ever used it rain or shine ...
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I wish all cars would automatically turn on the headlights when the wipers are on. So many gray and white cars are hard to see. And the drivers are clueless. I flash them all the time with my brights.
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I've thought of that myself, since it is technically the law where I drive, but I can see practical applications for "wipers on, lights off" when the car is stopped. Maybe that's the answer, if the car is moving more that, say, 40mph with the wipers on, the lights come on automatically. |
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