Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:21:53 GMT From: Laura K <lauraknospamousergraphics.com> Subject: Re: Cruise Control
ma_twain <ma_twainnospamo.com> wrote in news:4210FDF1.1070100nospamo.com: > Have you had an issue with speeding tickets in the South? In the places I was driving -- South Georgia, South Alabama -- speeding tickets are the major source of revenue for the small towns. Georgia did take the radar gun away from one town. The cop there (only one in the town) had written 4500 tickets in a one-year stretch. The town has a population of about 600 and was on a major highway to Florida. There aren't any interstates down there and only one 4-lane (2 in each direction)-- the infamous corridor Z that runs from St. Louis, Mo., to Brunswick, Ga. The speed limit changes about every 2-3 miles specifically to trap cars and allow the small town cops to write tickets. Can't use cruise control on Corridor Z. Outside of Z, cops in the south will spot you 15 MPH over the posted limit -- or so I was told by ones I was stopped for going 20 or more over. Always talked them out of giving me a ticket though. Usually claimed that I was using my cruise control and it must be broken. Never had a Saab there. Was driving a Lincoln Mark VIII. > > My problem with cruise control is that it will hold the speed right to > the top of the hill. Then you have to brake on the way down. You can > play the game and flick the cruise control on and off. If you drive a > manual transmission you can slow down by keeping the same gas pedal > position going up the hill. Then you downshift at the crest of the hill, > keeping within the speed limit without using your brakes going down > the hill. In the area I'm talking about there aren't any hills. Not many turns, either. Not really a whole lot of roads when it comes right down to it. Biggest problem is deer on the roads. It's mainly peanut and cotton fields and pine forests (commercially grown for pulp and bark mulch and some for turpentine near the coast.) I've never used cruise control in East Tennessee. Never even thought about using it. All hills and turns. I'll use it from time to time on interstates to give my foot a rest, shake it out. 600-800 mile drives in a day aren't unusual for me and I only stop for gas. But even driving long flat interstate stretches (Kansas, Iowa, Illinois come to mind) I never turned it on and left it on.
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