What in heaven's name are you doing running CRUISE CONTROL on the I-405 (much less any other freeway in LA)?! Sparse traffic on the San Diego Freeway is sporadic at best, non-existant most of the time, but in all cases will come to a dead stop (or worse) any time of the day or night. That's just askin' for trouble.......... -- Jim Thompson (An LA Native) 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria" 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt" 73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise" 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug" oldvolkshome@gmail.com http://www.oldvolkshome.com *********************************** On 1/31/07, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote: > > So there I was on the 405 testing the speakers, as it were, and rolling > along in the second to left lane on cruise control when I decided the > fairly > sparse traffic was thickening up and I needed to go back to manual. > <SNIP> > I'm about to tap my brake to kill the cruise (this car had a > buttload of steering wheel controls but instead of looking down and trying > to find the right button I just decided to do it the old-fashioned way) > Cya, > Robert |
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