If ur skidding on wet surface, do u slam on ur brakes? or rapidly releasing and pushing?

Question

What if its not a wet surface, but you slammed on ur brakes and your skidding. Do you continue holding down the brakes or rapidly releasing and pushing?

Answer 1

Release then slightly bear down on them as your starting to stop.  And if your swerving then you should turn your steering wheel the opposite direction.

Answer 2

If you are skidding,  the last thing you want to do is touch the brakes.   Your tires already have lost traction,  allowing them to spin at the pace needed for your speed and  steering into the skid  to keep the vehicle pointed forward is the best way to regain traction.    Then you can brake.

Answer 3

Use your brakes smoothly (if you do not have ABS). Depress your brake pedal with rapidly, steadily increasing force, but do not simply slam it as hard as you can.

This is essential to maximize the braking potential of your vehicle. The goal is to bring the vehicle's tires just shy of breaking traction.

The only time that one should pump the brakes is when driving a non-ABS vehicle on a slick surface, and even then only if you're too inexperienced to reliably sense the limits of traction.

If you have an ABS-equipped car, however, it's better to slam the brakes than to not depress them hard enough.

Many people who are unfamiliar with ABS systems will pump the brakes on an ABS-equipped vehicle.

There is no need to pump ABS brakes, so don't do it.

Another common error people make when using ABS brakes is to take one's foot off the brake pedal when it begins to pulsate.

The pulsating is normal when the brakes are applied hard, and you should continue to press the pedal down just as hard.

Where in doubt, slam ABS-equipped brakes as hard as you can, as this will ensure that you'll stop as quickly as possible.

Answer 4

Turn into the direction of the skid and brake hard and keep pressure on the brake.  Release brake once you are again in control.

Answer 5

Depends if your car has ABS brakes. If the car has ABS slam the brake. If not, pump the brakes to prevent the wheels from locking up.

Answer 6

Daaaa! rapidly pushing & releasing.

Answer 7

releasing and pushing. [cadence tecnique]

Answer 8

steer in opposite direction, no breaks

Answer 9

Wet or dry, the ABS (anti-lock brakes) prevents a car from skidding by virtually pressing and releasing brake pedal in a few miliseconds intervals. It is felt like being kicked by a brake pedal:-)

If the car doesn't have ABS you just have to do it on your own - press-release-press-release. It's to prevent brakes from locking up - lock up leads to sliding and sliding means the cars in unmanouverable.

Now, to make things more technical. Imagine you're driving and your car's left-side wheels are on wet, right-side on dry road and/or you can be negotiating the corner while braking suddenly.

That's where DSC/ESP (stability control) kicks in. It can apply different level of brake power individually to each of four wheels. It can also adjust the torque and, again, can apply different amount of torque to left and drive wheel (by applying traction control).

I experienced that on a highway while doing about 60 mph. My attention gone off for a split of a second and I found myself right behind a guy who was braking for no apparent reason. I needed to make a sharp right turn - and by sharp I mean really sharp. It felt like each of the wheels wanted to go in different direction (that would normally led to skidding), I noticed DSC light flashing on a dashboard, brake pedal was kicking me.... but the car made the turn as driving on rails.

Having said that, it's important to realize that neither ABS nor DSC can push the laws of physics. They just help to avoid crashing in unexpected situations.

Answer 10

Don't brake until you have control of your vehicle. Then pump the brakes to a stop.