Do you use cruise control?

I’m not comfortable with the since of giving up control, especially when roads might be bad and more importantly I don’t trust the divers around me to be any sort of reasonably intelligent drivers. The only time i’ve used it is on I-5 from LA to Sacramento and I always had to deal with the occasional jerk who decides to swerve out into the opposite lane then back to mine just to take that extra 12 feet.

True that i can always disable it at an instant, but i think CC lulls me into a false sense of alertness.

I love using cruise control on Robert Moses Parkway in the late afternoon It is a beautiful beach road with amazing views, and almost no cars. With cc I am able to maintain speed while still able to see around me.

I am a cruise control user. It saves gas and can stop me from getting a ticket when set properly.

I have a lead foot, so I use it as much as possible. I also have to deal with those dumbass leapfroggers. It wouldn’t be a road trip without at least one.

I use cruise control almost religiously. Saves me gas and that makes me happy

I use it on long trips so my ankle doesn’t get tired, but I am leary of it because I’ve heard stories of it getting stuck. It happened on the Florida-Georgia line once, and that was pretty scary. A man couldn’t get his to turn off, and had a lot of near misses before he finally shut down his engine and coasted to a stop.

I only use cruise control when I go on long drives, like when I go out of state. I have to use cruise control because if I don’t my leg starts getting real tight.

EVERYDAY! I even use it on short stretches just to save gas.

all the time.

i mostly use cruise control when driving in areas with a speed limit of 35 or lower to stop me from going to fast.

Edit: In my earlier response I meant Robert Moses Causeway, not parkway.

Before I had a car with Cruise Control, it still drove me batty how people vacillate their speed. I was taught to monitor and maintain my speed, to give a more gas going uphill and a less for downgrades.

Since getting a car with Cruise, I use it daily… including on the local roads to keep me from my tendency to have a lead foot… e.g. in school zones where it is 25 MPH (which is typically the minimum speed that cruise can be set to) or other roads where I know the police like to hang-out and set up speed traps.

Always, anyone who thinks it takes away control is only fooling there selfs, your never really in control

I use it whenever traffic allows, but never in rain. It tends to cause hydroplaning on wet roads.

I have a lead foot. Cruise control saves me a lot of money.

(Of course, my current car doesn’t have it, but that’s okay, because I haven’t driven in a month anyway.)

I use cruise control to avoid getting a ticket, mostly on long trips. I had a rental recently that did not have cruise control. When passing one of those individuals who speed up when someone is passing, I also sped up without noticing the change in speed. Add to that I had called my mom to check up on her. About that time I noticed the CHP coming across the median. I looked down and was going 88. With cruise control it would have been set at 78 in a 70 zone. The officer was kind enough to give me something to add to my “to do list’. Traffic School.

I also only use cruise control on I-5 between Sacramento and Monterey or LA. Traffic tends to be too bad on I-80 or anywhere in the Bay Area or Southern California. For me, cruising constitutes much more than just speed, it also involves satellite radio (so I don’t have to fiddle with changing CDs and stations), and a driving companion so I can relax and enjoy the ride when my neck and back start to hurt from being stationary too long ;)

Germany is too densely populated for that. But I love the cruise control whenever I visit the US.

Absolutely. That way I KNOW it’s the driver I just started passing who is the one who sped up, and it wasn’t me who slowed down.
I want to get a bumper sticker that says, ‘USE YOUR CRUISE!’
Using your cruise would save a lot of people a lot of headaches from drivers who randomly speed up and slow down, and don’t even realize it.