MrBitsy
I know what it is. I know how to avoid it.
And now, from the Ministry of StupidityWe have this: What the report says is that an influential transport group, with the remit of "aiming to close the economic gap between the north and south of England" have just...
And I know there have been times when having *done it* in safe circumstances, deliberately, has meant that I could handle it the few times that it has happened totally unexpectedly.
Including the time diseasel spilt on a roundabout *nearly* led to me ploughing into a load of expensive cars on a forecourt. If I had not practised handling a car in a skid it would have been a very expensive moment for the garage-insurance co. and a very dangerous moment for anybody walking along the road at that point, as people often do.
Understeering on cars is 'safer' because the natural reaction of inexperienced drivers in a skid is to steer more and stamp on whatever pedals they happen to be near - one of which is usually the throttle. With understeer, they go straight, with oversteer they loop wildly.
parking initiativeHa!! More pandering to the disorganised motorist allowing them to cause inconvenience to others. New phone parking scheme launched Drivers in central London and on a busy west London road...
But having practice in skids means you *instinctively* back off on the throttle and straighten up (for understeer) which gets your steering back and slows you down.
Learner drivers (at the 'almost ready' stage) should have skid training. There's not really any excuse not to. Even if it's only a few minutes, it makes a lot of difference.
