I just checked with David, who we sent to a proper driving school at Road Atlanta for advanced defensive and emergency driving some years ago, and he told me what his instructors said. You always steer in the direction you want the car to go, so you have to be careful to not just blindly turn your wheels in the same direction as the read end slip, otherwise you end up with what you saw in that crash when the fishtail whips back around in the other direction. So as the car fishtails one way and then another, you have to quickly change the direction of the front wheels to point exactly where the car should go if it were to suddenly regain traction.
The people who are best at this seem to be stunt drivers for action films, who are used to calmly performing some pretty amazing tricks while cars slide and skid this way and that. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement > -----Original Message----- > From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 9:28 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: what a crash > > hmm... > I just always remember being taught to turn into the skid to correct. > > On 06/04/2008, Matt Quackenbush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Once he hit that stuff, the chances of him not spinning were > basically > > zero. However, and this is where the "rookie mistake" came into > play, he > > very well could have kept the car off the wall. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258086 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
