A good time for driving lessons
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A good time for driving lessons
If there are any iced over parking lots near you, and if you have young folk just learning to drive - while this ice and snow are still on them, take them to that empty lot and teach them how to drive on slick pavement!
It could save their lives someday.
Stear into slides, and come out slowly from them.
Let a clutch out slow.
The front brake is 70% of your brakes - so on ICE your steering wheels slide first... Use your emergency brake, or engine compression to slow you down. This way you maintain control of direction.
GUNNING an engine will not get you out of a rut you dug. ROCKING back and forth will.
It pays to have a bag of sand in the truck. You can get one most anywhere.
Etc...
Etc....
The lessons we learn over years.
A refresher is also good for each of us, no matter how skilled we are.
It could save their lives someday.
Stear into slides, and come out slowly from them.
Let a clutch out slow.
The front brake is 70% of your brakes - so on ICE your steering wheels slide first... Use your emergency brake, or engine compression to slow you down. This way you maintain control of direction.
GUNNING an engine will not get you out of a rut you dug. ROCKING back and forth will.
It pays to have a bag of sand in the truck. You can get one most anywhere.
Etc...
Etc....
The lessons we learn over years.
A refresher is also good for each of us, no matter how skilled we are.
Last edited by Greywolf; Feb 2, 2007 at 12:30 PM.
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I never made it past Glenn Springs road. i got stuck twice, sideways three times, and coasted gracefully past a stop sign while pumping the brakes (like you should) for all I was worth.
It wasn't so much the thought of the well travelled roads ahead, as the idea of getting home later that made me turn around and stay home today.
Thinking ahead is ten times better than dwelling on regrets about what I should have done.
It just wasn't worth the risk.
It wasn't so much the thought of the well travelled roads ahead, as the idea of getting home later that made me turn around and stay home today.
Thinking ahead is ten times better than dwelling on regrets about what I should have done.
It just wasn't worth the risk.
