I have been daily commuting from Carpinteria to the south end of Camarillo for nearly 3.5 years.

During
that time I have gone to work as early as 6 am and as late as 11 am for various reasons.
The stretch between Carpinteria and Ventura is mostly empty, so I use cruise control
every day. Today, as usual, I set cruise control to 72 mph as soon as I got on the
freeway and began my daily ritual of shaving my face and head while listening to an
audiobook (currently I am 15+ hours into a 26+ hour book, How
Few Remain by Harry
Turtledove — I love that I can download books from the local library, but I digress ). I usually get to Ventura or Oxnard and then turn off the cruise control for the rest of the trip.

Although I noticed that traffic was not heavy this morning, I didn’t notice that traffic was significantly lighter than usual. At the Carmen exit, which is in the middle of Camarillo, I noticed I still had the cruise control on. Amazing! I was able to go all the way to my exit at Santa Rosa Road on cruise control.