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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ole!rwing!fnx!nazgul!bright
- From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Subject: Re: driving in snow (or other low traction conditions)
- Message-ID: <1539@nazgul.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 22:33:31 GMT
- References: <BzA44z.G49@plato.ds.boeing.com> <2341@shaman.wv.tek.com> <1992Dec16.051316.3202@sopwith.uucp> <1992Dec17.045418.22907@eskimo.com> <47460@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
- Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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- In article <47460@ogicse.ogi.edu> hakanson@bogart.cse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson) writes:
- /But once you do lose it totally, you can do something else while
- /you're praying and hanging on.
- /According to Sam Posey, in a Road & Track (Magazine) Performance
- /Driving video I have, such a situation is one time that you should
- /lock up the brakes. The reasoning is that once you've spun the car,
- /if the brakes are locked you are at least decelerating, and you will
- /continue in a straight line in the direction you were last traveling
- /(note that this may not be in the direction the car is pointing!),
- /even if the car continues spinning around. This is preferable to
- /having the car shoot off at full speed in whatever direction the car
-
- Just such a situation happened to a friend of mine last week. He got hit
- by a drunk on the freeway causing his car to spin out of control.
- Remembering the racing school he & I took last August, he immediately
- locked all 4 wheels. His car rotated and came to a stop without
- exiting the freeway, while the drunk careened off the road and down
- a 60 foot ravine. Just that one incident easilly paid him back for the
- cost of the racing school ($2000).
-