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WHY do drivers rev hard when driving in snow?
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I have been behind another car driving in bad snow conditions on level ground in a straight road yet they STILL manage to skid all over the road!!
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maybe doc - might be safer fun if they did it in an empty car park....
17:35 Mon 06th Dec 2010
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This absolutely does my head in! I was behind someone the other day and they went all the way up my street, which is uphill and very bad, in 1st gear so slowly they almost stopped. Luckily I was close enough to my house to get past them and park up before they came to a stop and got stuck doh. My husband wasn't so lucky, he got his van stuck since someone did it to him and forced him to slow down too much.
It is not so much a question of choosing a "too high" gear as ensuring you keep the torque applied to the driving wheels low. In fact you are quite likely to be unable to get the torque minimised in second gear if traffic movement dictates you need to go slower than second gear permits. Applying torque when moving off from a standstill is particularly tricky. It is correct to say that keeping your speed up as much as possible is less likely to give rise to excessive torque and consequent loss of grip. There was a lovely demonstration the other day of the oft trumpeted British virtue of common sense: It turns out UK insurance companies treat fitting winter tyres in the current conditions as a modification. Fail to notify it and paying the consequent steeply raised premium and your insurance will presumably be invalid. Those who curse people in front not coping on snow and/or ice may have the insurance companies to blame if in fact the driver of that vehicle would be on appropriate tyres if only......
I worked for the .Emergency Services' until a few years ago, so am used to driving in all weather condition, but hey!...some of the drivers out there now have no idea!....If they hit black ice, they'll be totalled!.........they don't have a clue, not about the car you drive, it's all about the way you drive it!..............
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