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- From: chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu (Chris Webster)
- Subject: Re: what to do when your car skids?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.190519.23875@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu (USENET Maintenance)
- Reply-To: chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu
- Organization: Research Aviation Facility, NCAR, Boulder, CO
- References: <C16CJK.3q@vcd.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:05:19 GMT
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- thatcher@vcd.hp.com (Garen Thatcher) writes:
- >He said "Steer the car in the direction you want to go. It does you
- >no good to steer opposite of the skid if that will put you into a
- >ditch"
-
- This is what I always did with my old front-wheel drive car. Point
- the wheels where I want to go and accelerate or at least maintain
- speed. I remember coming home from Rocky Mtn N.P., we were going down
- hill approaching a corner. I let of the gas, the car lost traction,
- and turned sideways (luckly same direction as corner). Once the car
- reached the corner I stood on the gas and we rocketed out of there.
- No problem. Lots of sweat.
-
- --Chris
-