How To Drive A Motorcar
A Key To The Subtleties Of Motoring

HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCAR skids are such things as the distribution of the weight of the people and load carried. For instance, if the greater portion of the weight is not in the central axis of the car; or, yet again, if both wheels are revolving too fast on a slippery surface, and the surface under one wheel is more slippery than under the other. If from any of these various causes or from any other cause, when one is driving along and the car begins to skid at the back to the driver’s left, then he must do exactly what he probably feels inclined not to do, that is to say, steer to the left: in other words, in exactly the same direction as he is skidding, and towards the spot from which he is anxiouô to get awa-y. As he does so he must dab on the brake, which has the effect, in the first place, of piling up an extra proportion of the weight of the car on to the front wheels, and so increas- ing their adhesion, and then through their angular setting they convey a counterbalancing thrust, tending to thrust the rear of the car back again from the direc- tion in which it was going. Car proceeding crab fashion- Note that in this case the car occupies much greater space than it would normally. Sometimes, on very greasy roads with much camber, one finds it practically impossible to maintain a straight line of progress for the car, and it is only possible to get along in a crab-wise manner. On such occasions one must steer a little bit to the left, and if even this is not 110