Please share. Good advice and info. Learn something
every day. Peace & love,
Diana
"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young
and inflame their intellects." Robert Maynard Hutchins
Subj: DRIVING IN RAIN.... I never knew!
DRIVING IN RAIN....This May Save Your Life. This is well worth a
read!
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 put on your SUNGLASSES (any model
will do), and miracles! 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 SUNGLASSES in your car. 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!!!!
Amazingly, 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 cars. Or the
"kickup" if you are following a car in the rain.
They ought to teach this little tip in driver's training....It really does
work. This is a good warning I wonder how many people knew
about this???
Another good tip:
A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago. 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
Police 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 Police Officer told her that if the cruise control is on, your car will
begin to hydro-plane when the t i res lose contact with the
road, and your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed making you take
off like an airplane. She told the Officer that was exactly what had
occurred. The Officer said this warning should be listed, on the driver's seat
sun-visor-NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE ROAD 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
road is dry.
The only person the accident victim found who knew this,(besides the Officer),
was a man who'd had a similar accident,totalled 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.
Even if you send this to 15 people and only one of them doesn't know about
it, it's still worth it. You may have saved a life....
Dear
music, thank you for being there when no one else was.
"Music speaks what cannot be expressed,
soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows
from heaven to the soul."
"The function of music is to release us from the
tyranny of conscious thought."
"Strong people don't put others down...They lift them
up."