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Winter Driving Tip

Tue, 02/07/2006 - 12:11pm — micah

This came to mind last night, and Sheri's Superbowl email reminded me of it again. It's a simple winter driving tip (that would also work on the "black ice" of Florida's oily roads during the rainy season) that I'd never heard in all my years of driving:

If your car starts to skid, don't look at something you're hoping to not hit. Look where you want your car to go.

I think I heard this for the first time either last year or the year before, and I've tested it enough times (deliberately and out of habit) to prove it true. The car tends to go where you're looking, so once you realize that you're in trouble, look where you want to go to be out of trouble, and you will generally do the right things to make the car go that way.

Comments

Fri, 02/10/2006 - 11:46am — rebecca

looking where you want to go

So, if I want my car to go to the mall I just need to look in that direction? Or if I want to avoid the ice cream shop I don't look at it? Cool. I'll have to give it a try. As far as winter driving goes, around here they are already cancalling school events planned for tomorrow because we MIGHT get up to 5 inches of snow! Basically we are in such a panic mode when there is the possibility of snow that we all are supposed to lock our selves in and not attempt to drive. But if the occasion arises I will promise to follow your handy tip!