1996 Cadillac DeVille Owner's Manual - Page 102

Reducing Speed While Using Cruise Control There are two ways to reduce your speed while using cruise control: 0 Using Cruise Control on Hills How well yourcruise control will work on hills depends of upon your speed, load and the steepnessthe hills. When going up steep hills, you may have tostep on the Push in the buttonat the end of the lever until you accelerator pedalto maintain your speed. When going it. A reach a desired lower speed, then release downhill, you may have to brake shift to a lower gear or CRUISE ENGAGED message will then display. to keep your speed down. course, applying the brake Of To slow down invery small amounts, push the of takes you out cruise control. Many drivers find this to button for less than half a second. Each time you do be too much trouble and don't use cruise control on / ) this, you'll go 1 mph (1.6 b hslower. steep hills. Passing Another Vehicle While Using Cruise Control Ending Cruise Control Use the accelerator pedal to increase your speed. when There are two ways to end cruise control: you takeyour foot off the pedal, your vehicle will slow Step lightly on the brake pedal. down to the cruise control speed you set earlier. Move the CRUISE switch to OFF. Erasing Speed Memory The cruise control set speed memory is erased when y or turn off the cruise control the ignition. 2-39