Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you tonight about
driving in bad weather and skid control. Stick around.... I'll get [LAUGHING] my... see I wrecked
it. I didn't have the pointer on the right place.
Stick around we'll be right back with that information.
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Okay, so I don't know whether the introduction worked or not, but anyway we're back. And tonight we're
talking about bad weather and how to get traction how to get skid control so
there's a few people here this week Sam's here Canadian is here
Stephen is here Vinny's here nama is here for those of you who are new to
smart drive test smart drive test helps new drivers get a license veteran
drivers to remain crash free and CDL drivers to get a license as a truck or
bus driver i am rick august and started the channel here about three years ago
in rain tires will evacuate or pump out as much as one gallon per second and
that's why some tires are much better in rain than other tires winter tires the
reason that they're much better is because the rubber compound is softer so
when it gets cold it still flexes and it when it flexes it ejects that snow from
the tire so this is the reason that you want winter tires now in the winter time
if you're running on a lot of snow and ice and hard pack you want steel studded
tires kids they're actually gonna dig into the snow and ice there's two kinds
of loss of control in terms of steering there's over steering and over steering
is when the back end of the vehicle comes around now the opposite of over
steering is under steering and under steering this is when you turn the
steering wheel but the vehicle continues to go straight and chop steering works
on any road surface where you've lost traction so snow and ice on gravel roads
and those types of things it's a technique that's adopted from racing so
if you watch any of the rally car racing videos where they have the camera in the
car you'll see the driver oftentimes they'll have a piece of tape on the top
of the steering wheel and as they're going around the corner they're pulling
and releasing the steering wheel if a crash is imminent try to slow the speed
of the vehicle as much as possible steer like a mad person don't give up and as
well if a crash is imminent aim for something soft as opposed to
something hard and yes that's a good point that tim has here about if crash
is imminent make sure your hands and arms are not covering the stream at the
time of impact yes so that the airbag so that you're not getting forearms slammed
into your face and those types of things which is an excellent point and epic is
watching from Phillipsburg New Jersey yes that's a good point just a reminder
just let us know where you're watching from in the world that's really great we
love doing all that go to your local tire shop and talk to the sales person
there and see what you can recommend because the other thing Marcia that you
need to do is is I don't know how much it's going to cost you for snow tires or
what your budget is for snow tires but you're probably gonna spend about $1,000
for four good snow tires on your vehicle now the other thing that Gary
recommended was is that you have two sets of rims for your vehicle so you
have a set of rims and snow tires and then you have a set of rims and your all
season tires for the summertime and it's gonna cost you a little bit less because
if you have to take your snow tires and actually put them on the rims you have
your summer tires on it's gonna cost you about two hundred dollars to switch your
tires over whereas if you have your tires on different sets of rims and you
can just bolt them on when you change your tires over in the winter time it's
only gonna cost you about thirty forty bucks okay so it's a little bit cheaper
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did I'm just I'm so grateful thank you so much for that I'm really glad that I
can help out okay Hall face good night all the best there in Toronto and stay
warm there in Ontario have a good night my friend what it's the difference
between driving a how to drive a standard versus a manual truck okay so
Tommy a passenger vehicle has a synchromesh transmission where as a big
truck will have a non synchromesh transmission and if you want some a high
level overview of driving a non synchronous transmission have a look at
the video on shifting theory in quarry I'll put that
up for you as well so definitely have a look at that 9 10 13 15 and 18 speed are
all basically 5-speed transmission to make sure you do a practice driving test
with a local driving school and these are very inexpensive I know for Sam at
rookie auto driving school there in the Bronx it's only about 20 bucks so it's
money up very well invested okay so good night to everybody thanks again for
showing up thank you very much for your questions and your engagement in the
live stream and making all this channel as great as it is thanks again and
remember pick the best answer not necessarily the right answer have a
great night