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Snowtires please
Dmv driving tests said it’s best to not break and better to drive slowly to redirect.
Yep. Stay off the brakes, use the lowest gear you have available. Even most automatic transmissions let you select “L” for these situations.
When I drive my manual in icy conditions, I generally stay a gear lower than I normally would as a rule. Much easier to recover.
On my newer PHEV vehicle, there’s an icy driving mode and an L option (even though it’s a CVT, it can mimic a high-torque low gear).
Videos that end too soon…
That’s some fancy fucking driving! That person deserves a raise.
It really wasn’t. He went sideways because he was hitting his brakes after it started to go sideways.
Should he have just coasted all the way down the hill? How fast would he be going by then? He seemed to do a pretty good job of braking as much as possible while still being able to steer enough.
Him going sideways meant his braking wasn’t working. If there’s slipping you want to let off the brake and down shift (you can do this in automatics) to the lowest gear that doesn’t make you slip. Staying straight to where your wheels aren’t slipping is a priority over braking or getting slower. The only way of slowing is to have traction, and you don’t want it while sideways.
I would have tried keeping straight and then veered over into the dry lane and started slowing down.
Put it in a low gear. The engine will slow the vehicle and prevent you from gaining too much momentum while still allowing you to control it.
He didn’t do a terrible job though, especially if there were cars ahead of him.
How many Class A busses have you piloted down an icy hill? It looks like solid driving to me!
Passenger busses? None. 52,000 pound fire engines? Many.
Do you have the guy in back steering the rear wheels? That style of truck used to be commonplace when I was a kid, but I haven’t seen one in a long time.
Oh, I’m sure his blood pressure raised.
How many points was that?
According to Tony Hawk Pro Skater:
- [360 Fastplant(250 x 2) + Hardflip(300) = 800] Crooked Grind(150+25) *multiplier 3* *sum 800*
That was really skillful driving.
It really wasn’t. The only reason he got sideways was because he tried using his brakes too much. The driver got lucky. The one thing he did do right was keeping his front wheels pointing the direction he was sliding.
When sliding and starting to go sideways at all, it’s time to lay off the brakes. They will only make it worse.
*edit- Just wanted to add that I’m speaking from a lot of experience. Commercial drivers license, 15 years of driving fire engines, tankers, and ladder trucks in all weather. Plus my side job is delivering propane during the winter. I’ve slid on ice while carrying around nearly 3,000 gallons of liquid pressurized propane. That gets your butt to pucker.
Does this pay well? Sounds like an interesting side hustle.
Great for a side job in my neck of the woods. I make about $27 an hour. You’ll need at least a class b commercial license with air brake. Then you need a tanker and a haz mat endorsement, but those two are stupid easy to get.
Drive to a spot, pull a hose, fill a tank, and go to the next one, mostly.
So you’re saying all I need is an icy road and some liquid propane?
Longer wheelbase vehicles don’t rotate quite as quickly so you have a lot more time to correct before things go haywire. They finally started to get the hang of the brakes and manually pulsing them near the end. At the beginning every time he locked up the brakes it just rotated more.
ABS doesn’t really help here because it works by a difference in speed between the wheels. If they’re all locked up then there is no difference.
So the Anti-Lock Brakes don’t work because they are locked up?
On large super slick surfaces ABS doesn’t really work. It might pulse for a second or so but eventually all the wheels stop moving and the system thinks you stopped even though you’re very much still sliding.
ABS is usually fairly loud and you can feel it pulse the pedal. If you’re on ice and that stops happening, then chances are you locked up all the tires and you should let up and reapply. Repeat as necessary until you actually stop.
ABS usually works okay in winter because your car isn’t entirely on a sheet of ice and there is some variance in the road surface beneath all the tires with differing friction levels.
Yep if all the wheels are locked up it just thinks you are stationary, ABS only kicks in if there is a difference like it front wheels lock but back wheels are rolling. Smarter systems (like on bikes) would also monitor motion.
Correct, this would be a job for ESP which has more input data, like steering angle, and can brake the wheels individually. This bus does not have it.
How is a psychic going to help?!?!!
Do they make the brake lights flicker faster?
Now I want a steering angle reading from a psychic
“Do you have an uncle named Euler?”
It really isn’t. Stop locking up the brakes.
But I’m prepared to be downvoted by ‘experts’ who have almost never actually driven in the snow.
The driver got the bus and the people in it down an icy slope, and nobody got harmed.
I call that success.
Yes, but skillful is a different thing entirely
It’s incredibly skilful and It’s not the correct thing to do.
Clearly not his first ice rodeo…
Maybe not a good thing if he regularly rides sideways.
Don’t kinkshame.
He’s probably feeling deja vu.
For sure, I bet they received a round of applause for pulling off that save.
Stupid driving
Some people are skillfully stupid.
Unlike me. I’m just stupid with no skills. Back in 2003, I pressed the preheat button on my convection oven. It caught fire.
Yep. That’s the extent of my cooking experience.
Yeah I’d pull over and wait for the sander. Hopefully there’s one.
Pull over on what? There was no shoulder.
Looks like dude just lost control and breaks all the time.
If you lock your wheels you can’t steer, just go man! You can break at the bottom.
Edit: don’t go if there is any danger, take a joke people lol. Still driver seems to be an idiot IMO risking the people in the bus.
Nah there were cars ahead, if he gained too much momentum he was screwed, besides he wasn’t just slamming on the breaks, there was roll going on there, just wasn’t helping much. Once he got enough control again he even bothered to turn on his flashers.
Only one of us can ride forever
So you and I can’t ride together
Can’t live or can’t die together
All we can do is collide together
So I skillfully apply the pressure
- Mos Def
No space for drivers, no space for walkers
No space regardless
You’re on my path? Then get off it!
You can see it starting to go bad and then the back tire catches some traction on the slop on the shoulder and he recovers. Sometimes the shoulder saves you.
A gravel shoulder saved me from a spin out one time during a blizzard
Any idea where this is?
Right there center screen bro damn
Republic of Sakha, in far east Russia.
A bunch of people in a perilous situation: survive
Person filming: sad LiveLeak noises
