This is a complete load of bunk. First of all, cruise control wouldn't automatically apply more gas when you hydroplane, in fact it would apply less. Even so, I don't care if you floor it while hydroplaning, the car won't suddenly overcome the physics of gravity and launch the car into the air.
Cruise control is a computer controlled function that maintains speed. As you go up a hill and it senses the loss of speed, it applies more accelerator to maintain. I don't care how much traction you lose, the computer will still try to maintain that speed. It doesn't randomly accelerate when it encounters slip, it DEcelerates to maintain the same wheel speed.
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your tires lose contact with the pavement, your car
will accelerate to a higher rate of speed making you take off like an
airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly what had occurred.
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Puh-leeze. Since when could rain and a computer-controlled throttle make you violate the laws of physics?