[TITLE: OVER-STEERING ON HIGHWAYS & FREEWAYS | CRASH ANALYSIS SMART]
Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about over-
steering and how keeping control of the steering wheel on a highway or freeway and stay crash free.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
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Hi there smart drivers. Welcome back!
Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about over-steering.
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Now over-steering… in the first video clip here you can see that the car is passing the
other car--probably at excessive speed for the conditions on the roadway--but as the
car gets up beside the car its passing, the car deviates over and pushes the passing vehicle
off onto the shoulder of the road.
Unfortunately the driver that's passing over-steers, over corrects the vehicle, the vehicle gets
out of line.
As soon as the vehicle gets out of line because of the excess of speed the vehicle loses control
and flips over.
On this next clip you can see the vehicle merges out onto the freeway and merges across
one too many lanes of traffic.
The vehicle that's on the freeway, it driver panics over-steers, over corrects to get out
of the way of the vehicle moving into its path.
The over-steer causes the driver to lose control and subsequently s/he collides into the barrier.
And the same with the last video clip here: the same thing, the vehicle merges over, the
vehicle over-corrects, loses control on the freeway and slams into the barrier on the
roadway.
So know that it is going to be far less damaging if somebody is merging into you whether you
hit side to side than it is if you lose control of vehicle and slam head-on into a barrier.
So hold your course when other vehicles are merging and are threatening to merge in you.
You simply have to move the steering wheel less than a quarter of a turn - not even a
quarter of a turn.
Like a little bit of a turn to adjust the steering.
And oftentimes for new drivers what happens is is that they get excited, they panic, and
they over-correct, they over-steer when you need just a little bit and you have to hold
your course.
This is the other thing that happens with new drivers as well, is they get intimidated
by other drivers.
They oversteer and overcorrect and lose control of the vehicle.
Whereas you just simply have to hold the vehicle because the driver in the first clip, rather
that was passing another vehicle and dropped off onto the shoulder of the road and hit
the dirt - yes it's going to freak you out a little bit, especially if you've never had
that experience before of dropping off the pavement, but had that driver just held the
steering wheel straight and just deft control of the steering wheel.
Because we've all been in those situations as veteran drivers where we're going too fast
and we feel that the thing is going to go out of control, but as soon as that vehicle
starts to deviate from the straight line you're going to lose control.
So you have to hold the steering wheel, because if you over-steer, you're gonna lose control
and end up doing what's happened in these video clips here at high speeds.
It doesn't take much for that vehicle to get away from straight, and once it does you've
lost control and now you're riding a juggernaut that's going to probably flip and roll over,
or crash into a barrier and cause extensive damage.
So don't oversteer - hang on to that steering wheel… deft touch on the steering wheel.
Question for my smart drivers: have you had this happen, where other vehicles have threatened
your space and you've over-steered and ended up in a crash.
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I'm Rick with Smart Drive Test.
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