Winter Driving Tips
Filed in archive by Gunnar Heinrich on December 13, 2007

By Gunnar Heinrich
It's winter in the northern hemisphere
and us New English in the Northeastern United States just got pounded by a major snow storm. Power outages. Highways closed. Stranded cars. You get the picture.We go through this initial shock of winter each and every December when the cold weather hits hard enough to cause good amounts of frozen precipitation.
Anyway, it's time for a refresher course on driving in the snow. And I'll use a clip of text from the NPR Car Guys' page to enlighten and/or remind on the how-tos of moving about in the white stuff.
"Do everything slowly and gently. Remember, in the snow, the tires are always just barely grabbing the road. Accelerate slowly and gently, turn slowly and gently, and brake slowly and gently. To do this, you have to anticipate turns and stops. That means what? Going slowly and leaving plenty of distance between you and other cars. Rapid movements lead to skids and loss of control. Drive as if there were eggs on the bottoms of your feet - step on the gas and the brake pedals so gently that you don't break the eggshell."
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[Source: Car Talk]
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