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I was coming back to work from lunch today, and took a corner in a spirited manner. I was pushing it fairly hard, but not totally to the limits. The curve went up over a slight hill, and I couldn't see the pavement ahead, although I'm familiar with the curve. Well, there was some runoff from some melted snow just after the crest of the hill, and when I hit it, it started to come out sideways on me at 35mph. As I felt it come loose, I had just started to let off the gas, and let the wheel counter steer when I felt the nannies kick the right brakes hard, and BAM!, I was straight. Pretty damned good. It's sort of scary to "what if" the scenario, wondering what would have happened without the nannies... I'd like to think my countermeasures would have been good enough, but given the slick ground and speed, I'd say there's a good chance I would have had a hard time keeping it straight...
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