They actually did something similar with a bus (the large long distance type) when I was in school. Hard brake at walking speed, pretty brutal. IIRC the lesson was to brace against the back of the seat in front of you when there’s an imminent impact/brake event, though of course you usually don’t know beforehand.
When I was doing my driving licence, here it’s mandatory to visit a a slick course before you get your licence. In summer it’s soap and oil or in the winter its ice and water.
Anyway, they had this tiny rig. A car seat, but it’s on a rail, but the rail is only some 1m-1.5m (3-5ft) long, and on like a 5-15° angle, but it simulates a dead stop at like 10-20km/h or smth kinda low. And even that was pretty brutal.
Having seen some videos of North Americans (sans some Alaskans and Canadians) driving in snow, I wholeheartedly agree.
This is gonna come off as racist and sexist, but anyway, the day I was on the track, during winter, there was three of us in the car + the teacher. Me, my mate and a muslim woman who hadn’t lived in Finland for too long, and was from a theocratic and patriarchic society. When it was her turn, and the teacher eventually pulled the handbrake just to simulate her losing control… she let go of the wheel, placed her hands on her eyes and started screaming. But she got over it by the end of the day, so…
Oof. I feel for her. That fight/flight/freeze response can be really hard to override, especially given her background.
I taught myself how to drive in the snow pretty soon after I got my license, in a 1991 FJ80 Land Cruiser with zero electronic aids. I figured out how to drift that pig through the whole church parking lot 😂, but being able to do that on my own was hugely beneficial to where I can now make my FWD cars perform better in the snow than most drivers here with 4WD. I just turn off traction control if it’s too hairy… Sometimes you need that wheelspin.
Man, you can do that at 5 MPH and get a similar reaction. A few thousand pounds of car moving at 5MPH carries way more momentum than people realize.
Edit: 5 MPH is a brisk walk. If you’ve run into a lamppost or a tree during a brisk walk, then you should understand what I mean.
The weight of the car has no impact (excuse the pun) on the momentum of its passengers.
They actually did something similar with a bus (the large long distance type) when I was in school. Hard brake at walking speed, pretty brutal. IIRC the lesson was to brace against the back of the seat in front of you when there’s an imminent impact/brake event, though of course you usually don’t know beforehand.
When I was doing my driving licence, here it’s mandatory to visit a a slick course before you get your licence. In summer it’s soap and oil or in the winter its ice and water.
Anyway, they had this tiny rig. A car seat, but it’s on a rail, but the rail is only some 1m-1.5m (3-5ft) long, and on like a 5-15° angle, but it simulates a dead stop at like 10-20km/h or smth kinda low. And even that was pretty brutal.
That sounds wonderful. With the amount of total morons on the road today, this needs to be implemented in every US state.
Having seen some videos of North Americans (sans some Alaskans and Canadians) driving in snow, I wholeheartedly agree.
This is gonna come off as racist and sexist, but anyway, the day I was on the track, during winter, there was three of us in the car + the teacher. Me, my mate and a muslim woman who hadn’t lived in Finland for too long, and was from a theocratic and patriarchic society. When it was her turn, and the teacher eventually pulled the handbrake just to simulate her losing control… she let go of the wheel, placed her hands on her eyes and started screaming. But she got over it by the end of the day, so…
Oof. I feel for her. That fight/flight/freeze response can be really hard to override, especially given her background.
I taught myself how to drive in the snow pretty soon after I got my license, in a 1991 FJ80 Land Cruiser with zero electronic aids. I figured out how to drift that pig through the whole church parking lot 😂, but being able to do that on my own was hugely beneficial to where I can now make my FWD cars perform better in the snow than most drivers here with 4WD. I just turn off traction control if it’s too hairy… Sometimes you need that wheelspin.