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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
DA, we were also taught to practice fishtailing and skids...for my drivers' ed classes we usually went to the high school parking lot or the community college parking lot.
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Yeah, they didn't teach that in my day, but we sent our son to a new defensive driving school and they did skid pads and the whole nine yards.
The other thing about driving in the snow is to keep OFF the brakes as much as possible. Once you've locked up the wheels -- lost traction -- you've lost control.
This will be the first winter I've even had a front wheel drive car -- always drove two seat roadster sportscars before -- so I hope I don't get overconfident.