Share a driving tip you use.

[68BabyBlue]

Huh??? Come on, man……
One legged cars can do this easily. Cars with a limited slip can too if the driver has adequate skills. Cars get out of control because the drivers can’t handle them. I don’t do burnouts to heat the tires for a race. Sitting still while smoking the tires isn’t my thing. I do like to be moving while the tires are spinning. Drifting a is a whole lot of fun.

I spent years trying to keep cars from going sideways while spinning the wheels to got up the snow covered driveway to my childhood home, built on the side of a mountain. Dad taught me watch the throttle around the last bend, narrow clearance with a large walnut tree left no room for error. Same skill set served me well in later years, driving a tractor trailer on slick roads. Trick was to outrun the trailer, without losing control of the tractor.

In 1970, I convinced dad to order a sure grip rear end in his new Valiant, the first car he ever special ordered. It made climbing the driveway in a straight line 100% easier. Unfortunately, dad wasn't able to adjust to the limited slip when he was cornering in town. That first winter, he spun the car out at a downtown intersection, and took out the passenger side rocker panel on a curb. He went back to a one legger rear when he traded the Valiant in on a new Dart in 1973.

The driveway pretty well took away any urges I might have had to spin my wheels on dry road, and sliding around in a tractor trailer pumped way more adrenaline than anything I could do with a car.

 

[WileE]

Here's a good driving tip for y'all : stay out of New Jersey. And New York, as well. There's plenty of whacko drivers on the roads here.

 

[SteveSS]

There's one dangerous place I have drive often. I have to turn left on a county road to get to the ranch. Because of the topography of this area there's very few places to pass. Even though there's double yellow lines where I turn people try to pass anyway. It's really bad if there's 2 or more cars behind me. I slow down early, hug the center line as a signal I'm going to turn, and when possible I signal a turn with my left arm.

This one is hard to explain but when I see traffic slowing ahead of me I'll slow down early so I can have some room to maneuver if I see the person behind me is coming too fast.