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I won't use cruise control.
I've heard the arguments in favour: keeps you under the speed limit, speedo doesn't move so you can focus your attention on the road, a rested right foot, potentially better fuel economy.
Personally, I don't trust it.
I'm paranoid I won't be able to disengage it, and when I run out of motorway and then dual carriageway and A-roads, I'll be left to tackle level crossings and village T-junctions still travelling at a constant 70mph. At least until I run out of fuel juice or try my hand at car water skiing just off Land's End.
After all, it's a car. And just as the bits inside my fallible human brain sometimes creak and seize up, how do I know the same won't happen inside its electronic head just as I'm preparing to exit junction 6 on the M4?
Cruise control is the beginning of the end for driver involvement and for the reason given above I'm not looking forward to that day in the future I relinquish full control of any vehicle. Yes, theoretically, it will take the strain out of driving and I'll be able to enjoy Bach while playing computer chess on my laptop, but I won't be able to relax.
That's because, as my BusinessCar colleagues wouldn't dare tell you, I'm a control freak, and that extends to my driving.
I like keeping my foot on the accelerator, making constant, subtle, barely perceptible adjustments to velocity in reaction to other drivers overtaking from behind or changing lane in front, curves in the road etc.
There's something inhuman about simmering along at a consistent 70mph. And anyway, where do you put your right foot when you're not using the accelerator?
Sorry, but where I'm concerned, you lose, cruise.
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