That is a bonus. Only car I've had with cruise control was the Accord and found it very useful. Rarely do that sort of mileage to justify it these days.Citroenmad wrote:Keeps me from doing naughty speeds too
I did get caught out on Thursday though.
I have extreme reactions to tobacco smoke, deodorants, perfumes and cleaning materials including laundry products.
I was very badly affected by fumes from a CNC router on Thursday that resulted in me sitting around at work for two hours until I was fit to drive home. Crashed out for a while then had to return to work to collect my glasses then go and buy diesel. My daughter wanted the car and it ran out the previous Sunday
Crashed out again at 9 pm and awoke again at midnight with the house full of smoke. Some t**t had lit a bonfire or similar and I had all the windows open, house full of woodsmoke.
Threw on some clothes and left the house, headed for the cliff top in South Shields where the air is fresh and clear.
I'm certain I stuck to the 70 limit until it dropped to 40, only passed a couple of slow moving cars and was aware of one following at a distance.
Realised it was a police car as I indicated that I was going to pull out into the outside lane to turn right at the roundabout we were approaching and he did the same.
Passed through the roundabout and started coughing - badly. Looked for a place to stop. After the next roundabout pulled in to a housing estate and stopped. He pulled in beside me with the old red and blues flashing.
Ran the window down but couldn't talk to him for the coughing and couldn't get a breath.
Eventually got out of the car but still unable to converse with him but he was warbling on about bad driving and breathalysers.
I had to ask him to step away as his aftershave was making things worse, which riled him up no end and he became quite aggressive.
I managed to explain, after some time, that I was over-sensitive to various aromatic substances*. He did calm down a bit but still insisted on a breath test, no result as it is weeks since I have imbibed.
He then said that I had been driving at 82mph - which I disagree with as I never exceeded 70 on the clock, and that I 'almost clipped the kerb' on a roundabout - which I do not dispute as I do drive very close to the kerbs, deliberately, about 2" clearance on roundabouts. Always have. Also I don't slow down for roundabouts as there is no need when there is no other traffic around.
Eventually he drove off after asking if I wanted and ambulance and suggesting I went to the hospital which was a mile away - things he should have done in the first instance rather than a parting shot.
As an aside, an ambulance would have been a waste of resources as there is nothing they can do - from experience - and the hospital is the worst place to be - people smoking outside, patients with smoke polluted clothing, aftershave, deodorants, perfume and fabric conditioner (which was what the policeman had) on there clothing, plus the s***e that the hospitals have in their air conditioning.
After an hour I managed to drive to the sea front in Whitburn, wandered along the beach, dozed in the car a bit then when it started raining went home to sleep for an hour before going back to work, the smoke having cleared by then, the rain helping.
This turned into a bit of a spleen venting expedition but the long and short of it is that a cruise control may have prevented the police intervention. Maybe I will get one, although I dispute the 82 mph part - had I been doing that he would have ticketed me for it, unquestionably. Sorry
*This is why I no longer turn up at rallies. Something I really miss but I just cannot take part any more. Among many other things.