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That was really skillful driving.
It really isn't. Stop locking up the brakes.
But I'm prepared to be downvoted by 'experts' who have almost never actually driven in the snow.
The driver got the bus and the people in it down an icy slope, and nobody got harmed.
I call that success.
Yes, but skillful is a different thing entirely
It’s incredibly skilful and It’s not the correct thing to do.
For sure, I bet they received a round of applause for pulling off that save.
Longer wheelbase vehicles don’t rotate quite as quickly so you have a lot more time to correct before things go haywire. They finally started to get the hang of the brakes and manually pulsing them near the end. At the beginning every time he locked up the brakes it just rotated more.
ABS doesn’t really help here because it works by a difference in speed between the wheels. If they’re all locked up then there is no difference.
Correct, this would be a job for ESP which has more input data, like steering angle, and can brake the wheels individually. This bus does not have it.
How is a psychic going to help?!?!!
Do they make the brake lights flicker faster?
Now I want a steering angle reading from a psychic
“Do you have an uncle named Euler?”
So the Anti-Lock Brakes don't work because they are locked up?
On large super slick surfaces ABS doesn’t really work. It might pulse for a second or so but eventually all the wheels stop moving and the system thinks you stopped even though you’re very much still sliding.
ABS is usually fairly loud and you can feel it pulse the pedal. If you’re on ice and that stops happening, then chances are you locked up all the tires and you should let up and reapply. Repeat as necessary until you actually stop.
ABS usually works okay in winter because your car isn’t entirely on a sheet of ice and there is some variance in the road surface beneath all the tires with differing friction levels.
Yeah, this has been my experience. I've got ABS on my current car but in winter the main advantage they provide is letting me know when it's time to pump the brakes if I need to come to a stop. The times I haven't pumped, let's just say I was lucky that no one else was going through that intersection at the time.
I suspect they are tuned to avoid locking up the wheels in conditions other than ice/slick snow and the pulse is too quick for the tires to get traction when it releases.
Yep if all the wheels are locked up it just thinks you are stationary, ABS only kicks in if there is a difference like it front wheels lock but back wheels are rolling. Smarter systems (like on bikes) would also monitor motion.
Stupid driving
Some people are skillfully stupid.
Unlike me. I'm just stupid with no skills. Back in 2003, I pressed the preheat button on my convection oven. It caught fire.
Yep. That's the extent of my cooking experience.
Yeah I'd pull over and wait for the sander. Hopefully there's one.
Pull over on what? There was no shoulder.
Look left
The immediate left is the lane of oncoming traffic (you can see this late in the video looking ahead). To the left of the oncoming trafffic lane is a meter or so of grass, then a drop off to a ditch. You can see the left tall grass early in the video.
Clearly not his first ice rodeo..
Maybe not a good thing if he regularly rides sideways.
Don't kinkshame.
He's probably feeling deja vu.