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Just remember from this old Northerner (grew up in Upstate NY, Lake Snow area) to use the snow on the road rules:
1. Use at least the twice of distance when braking to stop.
2. Four wheel drive will help you get out of ditches but are hard as heck to drive in slippery conditions. So go a little slower in snowy conditions and don't ever break really hard, you will slid uncontrollably if you do.
3. Be a real defensive driver in Snowy conditions. Don't follow any vehicle to close and keep good distances between cars.
4. Never lay on the pedal in snowy conditions, you will do nothing but spin your tires and bury your tires deeper into the snow.
5. When sliding get off the breaks. Stopping the wheels will make you slide even more in icing conditions.
Just keep these simple rules in mind and you should be find in Snowy road conditions. Just remember the turtle wins the race in slick conditions.
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bbloke
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Ah, the joys of driving in snowy/icy conditions... We're taught to allow ten times the stopping distance and also to use higher gears to prevent wheel spin.
Actually, I've found a relevant page of The Highway Code (which learners in the UK have to remember before passing their driving test): Driving in adverse weather conditions.
Actually, I've found a relevant page of The Highway Code (which learners in the UK have to remember before passing their driving test): Driving in adverse weather conditions.
pds
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I love to drive in the snow, I get vicarious pleasure out of seeing folks on the side of the road (hurt cars, not hurt people).
I take my children learning to drive out to a big empty parking lot and have them see what trouncing on the brakes or stomping on the gas will do to you, but I have to borrow someone else's car because ....
*knocks on wood
My Honda Civic just keeps going and going. I can't get it to spin out, even when I try in the parking lot. It seems they designed it with slippery driving conditions in mind.
*knocks once more just in case
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Funny that the Brits call it a higher gear, we call it a lower gear. But then that Jeremy cat with the car show on BBC calls it High Gear (or is it Top Gear)
I take my children learning to drive out to a big empty parking lot and have them see what trouncing on the brakes or stomping on the gas will do to you, but I have to borrow someone else's car because ....
*knocks on wood
My Honda Civic just keeps going and going. I can't get it to spin out, even when I try in the parking lot. It seems they designed it with slippery driving conditions in mind.
*knocks once more just in case
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Funny that the Brits call it a higher gear, we call it a lower gear. But then that Jeremy cat with the car show on BBC calls it High Gear (or is it Top Gear)
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bbloke
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Really? I'm surprised, actually!
We call higher gears the ones with the higher numeric value, which are the ones used at higher speeds. Is that what you were assuming (or knew)? I suppose I'd never thought of it as potentially being the other way round. The highest gear (e.g. 5th gear) is sometimes called the top gear, hence the name of the BBC show.
Oh, possibly best not to look up the episode where Jeremy, Richard, and James travel across the south of the US.
bbloke
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Oh, OK.
Under normal circumstances, yes. The reason they advise a higher gear in the snow is to reduce wheel spin, as lower gears provide more torque. (But I imagine you know this already!)
I particularly liked the driver-cooling system that Jeremy constructed.Clarkson in Alabama - what a trip!!!
Ooops, sorry. Err, where's that link to driving in a heat wave?
While on the mood for rewatching all James Bonds in order again... I saw Tomorrow Never Dies yesterday. And nearly giggled half of the movie as Elliot Carver does look like someone as does Henry Gupta too. Less so when the film was released...
Rhisiart
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Well I hope the Saints do well. I also hope Wales gives England a lesson in rugby in London this afternoon.
Rhisiart
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Players play for their respective clubs weekly. The best players are selected for the national teams. The Six Nations tournament takes place in Feb/March each year and consists of England, Italy, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France.
The Saints game is live on British television tonight.
bbloke
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We were watching the match yesterday (supporting England, I'm afraid) and we thought it was going to be a continuation of the English tradition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...