So there was this video of a woman managing to avoid a crash by steering in a special way. I’m learning to drive rn and people keep saying if you skid you steer into it, but isn’t that the opposite of what it feels like you would do?
In: Physics
There simplest explanation is because you want to make the tires point in a direction that allows them to roll. If you’re skidding a car and it begins to rotate, the tires are no longer pointed in the direction the car is moving. You have way nor control of the direction and speed of a car when it’s wheels are rolling than when it’s sliding so if a skid happens you try to get the front wheels of the car to point in the same direction as the skid and they’ll hopefully be close enough to the direction of travel of the front if the car to have enough friction to stop the skid.
Latest Answers