Winter Driving - Texas Adult Driving Course Online Video Lecture | Drivers Education of America: Overview - Personal Skills

the big issue in Texas when it comes to
driving in winter weather is that the
roads end up getting covered with ice
not snow when this happens your tires
cannot create any traction with the road
in order for traction to exist there
must be two surfaces that can interlock
in some way when the roads ice over the
treads on your tires can't interlock
with the road so you begin sliding the
possibility of sliding increases every
time you want to break accelerate or
turn as we can see in this video coming
down a hill can make matters worse the
driver hits his brakes and as you can
see the car slides slightly sideways
this is the effect of braking with no
traction because of the ice going up
hills can be just as troublesome in fact
ice has shut down entire highways all
because there was a slight lll in the
large trucks did not have enough
traction to get up the hills so
solutions one if there is snowy or icy
weather try every way possible to avoid
driving altogether it is just not worth
it if you wreck your car think of all
the problems that will cause you the art
of driving is perfection so putting your
car on a road that has no traction makes
a zero sense second option if you do
have to drive giving yourself maximum
space between your car pedestrians cars
trees etc will increase your odds for
success this increased space will also
give your car more time to slow down or
turn another tip is to just drive very
slow no one is expecting you to be on
time when the roads are icy
they generally are just happy you
arrived going slow means driving in a
low gear look at your gear selector and
choose one of the following L 3 L 2 L 1
or maybe it says D 3 D 2 or D 1
by choosing one of these lower gears the
car will slow down quicker in those low
gears limit your speed all of these tips
for driving in winter and winter driving
might become one of your specialty good
luck