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- Phokaioglaukos - 01-13-2012
AWD helps you accelerate in low traction conditions, but you everyone has all wheel brakes and with low traction that can catch you out. Watch this.
- tamagee - 01-13-2012
It's really a matter of knowing your car, and yourself, which, it seems many do not. Perhaps AWD and traction control are giving people a false sense of capability.
Interesting that in many of the accidents the driver seemed to just hold on the brakes, never trying to steer through the skid.
Maybe a winter driving course should be mandatory. (or at least get you an insurance discount) I can still remember my dad taking me to an empty parking lot and teaching me how to counter a skid.
Terry
- Brian Minkin - 01-13-2012
This kind of weather combined with drivers who have not a clue is what body shops dream about. I spoke to a guy today that totalled his car yesterday morning on the NE extension of the turnpike. It was rainy and wet. Hydroplaned, spun out and the rest is history. I asked him if he tried to counter steer the spin. He looked at me like I had two heads. He told me he is lucky to be alive.