🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <47460@ogicse.ogi.edu> hakanson@bogart.cse.ogi.edu (Marion Hakanson) writes:
/But once you do lose it totally, you can do something else while
/you're praying and hanging on.
/According to Sam Posey, in a Road & Track (Magazine) Performance
/Driving video I have, such a situation is one time that you should
/lock up the brakes.  The reasoning is that once you've spun the car,
/if the brakes are locked you are at least decelerating, and you will
/continue in a straight line in the direction you were last traveling
/(note that this may not be in the direction the car is pointing!),
/even if the car continues spinning around.  This is preferable to
/having the car shoot off at full speed in whatever direction the car

Just such a situation happened to a friend of mine last week. He got hit
by a drunk on the freeway causing his car to spin out of control.
Remembering the racing school he & I took last August, he immediately
locked all 4 wheels. His car rotated and came to a stop without
exiting the freeway, while the drunk careened off the road and down
a 60 foot ravine. Just that one incident easilly paid him back for the
cost of the racing school ($2000).