That safety course told me to steer the way I want to go in a skid. I always learned to turn into the skid so as to recover control. I’ve steered the way I wanted to go and ended up sideways, learned to turn very slowly into the skid until I recover traction then turn slowly to the target directio…

Just come on up north in a few months and go practice on a frozen lake. You’ll get the hang of it pretty fast. You can’t be thinking about this stuff in a skid, it has to be instinct, so practice.

[image] bing: Just come on up north in a few months and go practice on a frozen lake If they still have drivers ed In the schools that should be included.

[image] Renegade: If they still have drivers ed n the schools that should be included. Mostly summer school because the teachers are free. Don’t go driving on the lakes in July. I took my test in a January blizzard in our good ole 61 Merc. After the parking part on a hill, I had to get out…

[image] shadowfax: Cool. Next time I’m driving a '93 Lumina I’ll keep that in mind. :wink: If you have snow and a 93 Lumina that isn’t all rusted you’re doing well! The Lumina was one of the safest cars tested in terms of front crash structure strength in the mid 90s by IIHS. A Monte Carlo wa…

InvisibleSnowman: Full steering to one side takes over about 1 second. You never go full steering lock in an accident. Plus it does not matter how fast you spin the wheel, the time to spin the wheel about 700 degrees plus the reaction of the polar rotational inertial of the vehicle plus the…

InvisibleSnowman: The auto industry wants to make vehicles safer, but they want to have a lot of accidents and have the vehicles expensive to repair so that people have to buy new ones. You truly live in an alternate reality, to put it nicely.

Can we agree that the damage caused in a small collision and/or the cost to repair it has gone up immensely? The argument from the auto makers is somewhat along the lines of the vehicle is designed to be destroyed to protect you. The auto makers had the 5 MPH no damage or limited damage federal sta…

InvisibleSnowman: The auto makers had the 5 MPH no damage or limited damage federal standard from the 80s repealed. Now it is only 2.5 MPH in to a solid barrier must not cause damage beyond the bumper mounts. The 5 mph standard was rolled back because the Insurance Institute found it actuall…

[image] Mustangman: and the more expensive to produce load-limiting seatbelt assemblies (see what I did there??) You changed the topic to safety instead of what to do in a skid like I did? I doubt that load limiting seat belts are significantly more expensive to produce though. Since we’re a…

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You truly live in an alternate reality, to put it nicely.

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