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Originally Posted by TuxedoCartman
The one day I forgot and left the TC on, I nearly curbed my wheel.
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Yea, that ones a bitch. Did it yesterday, took a wrong turn, needed to do a 180, figured I would use the "rear wheel steering"
forgot to turn the nannies off, nearly kerbed the front wheel.
A few general driving things that especially apply to RWD... if the car slides.
LOOK WHERE YOU WANT TO GO!
It's in caps for a reason, it is the singly most important thing you will do in a slide or out-of-control situation. Put another way:
Do NOT look where you think you will end up, because you will.
So do NOT stare at that big tree you could hit as you will hit it. Ever heard of "Magnetic Kerb/Curb"? Exactly this phenomenon. You notice you are close to a kerb, it attracts you attention, you focus on it and seemingly, no matter how hard you try you keep getting closer to it. The trick is to look away, look down the road where you want to be.
Studies have shown, time and time again, that while "we" think it is the conscious part of our brain - the part that thinks (I think therefore I am) - that controls the car, walks, runs, flies a hand glider, it is NOT. The part of the brain that does the actual driving is a much older and simplier part of the brain. The same part as motor-memory et al. Where it drives/walks/runs is almost entirely controlled by where you look. It does not understand English, or American for that matter, it only understands what it has learnt to do and where you are looking at. Also it doesn't understand "DON'T" it has no concept of negative stimulus.
So even though you are screaming "Not the tree! Not the tree! Please god not the tree", if you are looking at the tree the part of your brain driving the car WILL drive you into the tree.
As a paraglider pilot I have stood and watched people fly straight into the only tree in a square mile landing field. The instructor repeating on the radio, "Do not look at the tree. Do not look at the tree. Do not look at the tree."... they look at the tree, fixate on it as a threat and fly straight into it.