Four Wheel Driving in the Snow:
Four-wheel drive is used to send the specific amount of needed torque to each of your car's four tires to give it added traction to move forward through snowy roads. That doesn't mean, however, that you can race down the road at top speed in the snow and bring yourself to a quick stop.
Four-wheel or all-wheel drive isn't going to give you the traction you need to brake. It can help you get through some difficult conditions, Please remember it doesn't make you SuperSUV
Four-wheel drive is used to send the specific amount of needed torque to each of your car's four tires to give it added traction to move forward through snowy roads. That doesn't mean, however, that you can race down the road at top speed in the snow and bring yourself to a quick stop.
Four-wheel or all-wheel drive isn't going to give you the traction you need to brake. It can help you get through some difficult conditions, Please remember it doesn't make you SuperSUV
SHOOT BOY, my truck can do anything...
ReplyDeleteI'm okay, my truck has four wheel brakes, too!
ReplyDeleteWhat the man is saying is that even in 4 wheel drive you've got to slow down and use common sense.
ReplyDeleteit is always the SUVs and trucks that I see in the median during our snow events. They falsely think they can do anything.
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ReplyDeleteI can honestly say I have never pulled a truck out of a ditch when the roads are snowy. I can't say that about the countless cars I have pulled out.
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ReplyDeleteur full of beans, unless those suv's and trucks are cops ding dong
HA HA HA on the last little snow we had...I was traveling up 50 West form my over-night post assignment...I saw 4x4 vehicles all in the woods, side-ways, upside down...
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ReplyDeleteand...so?
The thing is that when you take people off of dry, smooth pavement, they are completely clueless. The best drivers are the ones who have spent some time driving off road. Not the people who buy 4-wheel drive vehicles and THINK they are proficient, but those who have been driving vehicles off road. Maybe someone took them into an empty, snowy parking lot and let them learn how it feels to slide and skid and how to recover from slides. Practice makes perfect. This is how you learn the limitations of your vehicles. This is why police and fire personnel are required to take an EVOC. (Emergency Vehicle Operation Course) Then apply good old fashioned common sense and you have a competent driver.
ReplyDelete3:39 Probably women driving, or older people (50+). Combine the two (Woman over 50) and you have what you describe.
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