Max is making a cup of coffee back in the living section of his 36-foot motor home. "This is the life," Max must have thought as he leisurely dips a doughnut into his steaming cup of coffee.

Suddenly, the motor home veers off the highway. Then it runs wildly through a grassy area and slams into the middle of a stand of trees.

Max wakes up on a stretcher with paramedics leaning over him. "How do you feel, mister?" a medic asks.

Max is unaware of the events that have just transpired. He tells a state trooper, "I was having a cup of coffee when the motor home started going wild. That’s all I remember."

"Where’s the driver?" asks the trooper. "We can’t find the driver."

Max hems and haws a bit without answering the question.

Again the trooper asks: "Sir, if the driver was injured we have to find him-now!"

Looking really embarrassed, Max tells the trooper, "I am the driver, sir, the only driver."

"You told me you were in the back having a cup of coffee!" responds the trooper.

"That’s just it, sir," Max says. "I wanted to go back and get me some coffee, so I set the motor home on cruise control."

"You what!" says the trooper. "Are you telling me you set the cruise control and left the steering wheel unattended?"

"Yessir." says Max. "I never had no motor home before and they told me if you put it on cruise control it nearly drives itself."

"Not hardly," says the trooper.

Max sues the motor home company for not telling him he couldn’t leave the driver’s seat while the vehicle is in motion.

What jury would possibly find the manufacturer at fault under these circumstances? This jury did! They awarded Max $1.75 million plus a brand new motor home.

By the time Max got his settlement, the manufacturer had revised the operator’s manual, making it very clear you can’t leave the driver’s seat while the coach is in motion-even if it is on cruise control.