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GOOD VISION IN A DOWNPOUR
email | 7/30/2010 | Anonymous

Posted on 07/30/2010 4:37:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

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 "kick-up spray" 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 USE THE 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.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: autos; rain; windshield
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

RainX works. So does waxing your windshield with regular car wax.


21 posted on 07/30/2010 5:33:30 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

RainX is awesome.


22 posted on 07/30/2010 5:37:01 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
*** Did you notice that I deliberately misspelled it as well? ***

Yes I did.
I figured a word that simple, you wouldn't misspell by accident.

But I didn't want to go there as my head is starting to hurt. And I have to get to work soon which involves some of that 'physics stuff thingys'(1), so I want my head clear. Nothing too complicated like 'Quantim Mechanicals'(1), just that 'Newtonian type stuff'(1).

(1) Technical Terms.
:-)

23 posted on 07/30/2010 5:37:51 AM PDT by Condor51 (SAT CONG!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The sunglasses seeing through rain sounds apochryphal to me, not using cruise control in rain makes more sense. I did not find it on Snopes. Can anyone provide a fact based rebuttal?

I can confirm that I definitely use my sunglases in the rain. In fact I wear them most of the time. But the glasses I wear are hard to find and are fairly expensive. They are Revo polarized photo chromatic optically ground glass they substantially improve visual acuity.

IMO they were the very best you could get for the money, but unfortunately Revo stopped making them a few years ago. Serengeti makes a few modes and Ray Ban also makes one or two models, but none are as good as the rose colored Revo polarized photochromatics.

When I found out Revo stopped making them I bought several pairs to keep for later as I will no doubt eventually break of lose a pair now and then.

24 posted on 07/30/2010 5:44:07 AM PDT by suijuris
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The sunglasses seeing through rain sounds apochryphal to me, not using cruise control in rain makes more sense. I did not find it on Snopes. Can anyone provide a fact based rebuttal?

I can confirm that I definitely use my sunglases in the rain. In fact I wear them most of the time. But the glasses I wear are hard to find and are fairly expensive. They are Revo polarized photo chromatic optically ground glass they substantially improve visual acuity.

IMO they were the very best you could get for the money, but unfortunately Revo stopped making them a few years ago. Serengeti makes a few modes and Ray Ban also makes one or two models, but none are as good as the rose colored Revo polarized photochromatics.

When I found out Revo stopped making them I bought several pairs to keep for later as I will no doubt eventually break of lose a pair now and then.

25 posted on 07/30/2010 5:44:16 AM PDT by suijuris
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Tere you are. Te dirty scoundrel wo stole tat letter between te g and j from my keyboard.


26 posted on 07/30/2010 5:47:34 AM PDT by csmusaret (A government that can dictate how much water flows into a toilet is a powerful government indeed.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

To see better in heavy rain, get your face closer to the windshield.


27 posted on 07/30/2010 5:48:31 AM PDT by CPOSharky (They ain't "illegals." They are just unregistered democrats.)
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To: 999replies

The car doesn’t accelerate, (although it does feel like it) but the wheels lose traction and the cruise control keeps the wheels spinning at the set speed. This prevents the tires from regaining traction, and you skid off the road with your drive wheels trying to keep the car travelling at the set speed.

Without cruise control, you reflexively lift your foot off the accelerator pedal, which allows the wheels to slow down, thereby regaining traction and control.


28 posted on 07/30/2010 5:51:30 AM PDT by Don W (I keep some folks' numbers in my 'phone just so I know NOT to answer when they call...)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I did not find it on Snopes.

Snopes is not trustworthy about politically charged subjects; why trust them for anything else?

29 posted on 07/30/2010 5:59:10 AM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Condor51
And I have to get to work soon which involves some of that 'physics stuff thingys'(1), so I want my head clear. Nothing too complicated like 'Quantim Mechanicals'(1), just that 'Newtonian type stuff'(1).

Hey, good news then, there may be a movie of Quantum Leap.

http://www.screenstar.com/Blog/Entry/59

30 posted on 07/30/2010 5:59:25 AM PDT by garyb
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I did not find it on Snopes.

Snopes is not trustworthy about politically charged subjects; why trust them for anything else?

31 posted on 07/30/2010 5:59:31 AM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cachet Main Entry: ca·chet

Question. What should a baseball outfielder do with an incoming fly ball?

Answer. Cachet

Sorry, thought I was on the Friday silliness thread.

32 posted on 07/30/2010 6:59:59 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-Free zones are playgrounds for felons)
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To: Moonman62

Thanks, I will try it.


33 posted on 07/30/2010 7:51:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Well, I just assumed you were cursing, so I pardoned your French.


34 posted on 07/30/2010 8:20:39 AM PDT by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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To: csmusaret

Here, I’ll give ‘em all back:

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Lots more where those came from!


35 posted on 07/30/2010 8:27:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

good stuff
and excellent for making bugs easier to scrub off when on a long summer road trip


36 posted on 07/30/2010 8:29:46 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You could have thrown a few A’s. HAHAHAHA


37 posted on 07/30/2010 8:36:24 AM PDT by csmusaret (A government that can dictate how much water flows into a toilet is a powerful government indeed.)
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To: 999replies
I don't know the answer to your question about programed speed - cruise control. But I do know about the programed brakes...

I was in a mini van with brakes designed not to lock. Suddenly, in a rain storm, a freaking idiot pulled out in front of me and I slammed on the brakes. They “let go” and began pumping themselves until I crash-stopped in the side of the car. Before that kicked in, I was stopping fine and was on the way to avoiding a crash.

Luckily, my brother-in-law knows how to undo computerized “safety” crap on autos. Made me a believer in his warning. Human brains often work better than do computers.

38 posted on 07/30/2010 11:36:47 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

The ABS would have allowed you to STEER away from the incident had you trusted it a bit more.

You were doing just great, but your threshold braking BROKE THROUGH the threshold, which started the ABS pulsating brake action.

The whole purpose of ABS is to keep the amount of skidding by the tires to a minimum, which will allow the driver to STEER away from the problem, rather than HOPE they stop in time.

Though I wasn’t there and cannot know the whole story, I see this as a very good example of technology that outstrips the training and knowledge base of the driver. As far as I am concerned, unless the purchaser, manufacturer and dealer are willing to invest the time to inform their customers about both the advantages and detriments of the new “safety” technologies and HOW TO USE IT, they should NOT sell it.

This is only an outgrowth of having better and more sophisticated technology in our cars, and another reason for having drivers rewrite tests on basic driving knowledge every 5 years, and take a road test every 10 years until 70, then every 2 years thereafter.


39 posted on 07/30/2010 2:03:32 PM PDT by Don W (I keep some folks' numbers in my 'phone just so I know NOT to answer when they call...)
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To: Don W

Thanks for explaining the techonolgy to me, Don.

I wanted control at that moment of emergency and I had control fo my van...until I didn’t. I know I would have avoided an accident under my own control.


40 posted on 07/30/2010 2:40:52 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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