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- From: hkelly@tantalum.eds.com (Kelly Shuldberg)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: what to do when your car skids?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.180210.3520@edsr.eds.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:02:10 GMT
- References: <9301201226.aa02803@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu> <C168Mo.2I7@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>
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- Organization: EDS Research, Albuquerque, NM
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- > Two comments:
- >
- > 1) Depends on the car you're driving. Definately you should turn "into"
- > the skid (i.e. left in this case). If you have front wheel drive then
- > you have to apply the *correct* pressure to the accelerator pedel
- > in order to keep the front wheels from breaking loose. In a rear
- > wheel drive it's not quite as important, although eventually you'll
- > have to match up the rear-wheel speed, either by applying gas or
- > putting in the clutch. In either case if you "hit" the gas you'll
- > probably make things worse.
- >
- > 2) If there's anybody else out there who doesn't already know the
- > answer to this question then PLEASE do not drive in snow until you
- > figure it out! Go practice in a parking lot. Take a driving lesson.
- > Do whatever it takes but DON'T go driving in the mountains! This
- > is the kind of thing that closes highways...
- >
- > ..glen
-
-
- Amen, especially point number 2. And don't think that 4-wheel drive is the
- answer. Once those brakes lock up, who cares how many wheels have power.
- I have these memories of a heavy snow morning in Utah, driving to work
- along the Interstate, and seeing all these Jeeps and Blazers overturned or
- otherwise in the median. Yeah, they go like Hell, but they don't stop no
- better than any other critter on the road. As I already said in another
- post, the key is "slow."
-
- h. kelly shuldberg
- hkelly@edsr.eds.com
- Albuquerque, NM
-