Worlds first Motorhome Autopilot tested!

cross21114 wrote:
I think that happened a few years ago in the States. The idiot ended up winning an award and led the the stupid warnings which appear in all RV manuals that you cannot leave the wheel when using cruise control. At least, the idiot in this case got fined and lost her license for a year. In the US, we give them money - we're so stupid.

I do not believe anybody in the USA has ever collected money for doing the stupid cruise control trick. There has been a variation on people thinking the Cruise Control is an Autopilot all the way back to 1979. Back then, the "story" was using a Middle Eastern Arab, (the USA had hostages in Iran) and he purchased a Winnebago product and activated the Cruise Control and Dies when it went off the road at 55 mph. It was all a hoax as well as any more such stories since then in the USA. There have been people that tried to sue when they did it, but I don't think anybody ever actually won and collected. Doug