Now that's driving!

LostinBlanch · 09-05-2007 10:08pm #1

Spectacular. Watch this guy not roll down a very steep hill!

ballooba · 09-05-2007 10:20pm

Somebody needed a change of underwear after that. Actually I'd say even the crowd did.

unkel · 09-05-2007 10:32pm

Nice wee dune

From a drivers point of view, the only thing he needed to do was apply a bit of throttle to get some traction when the vehicle was starting to roll down sideways. Which he did. I'd say most drivers would have done so instinctively

LostinBlanch · 09-05-2007 10:44pm

unkel wrote:

Nice wee dune

Yeah it was wasn't it? :eek:

unkel wrote:

From a drivers point of view, the only thing he needed to do was apply a bit of throttle to get some traction when the vehicle was starting to roll down sideways. Which he did. I'd say most drivers would have done so instinctively

I'd say instinctively he'd have wanted to beat the crap out of the guy sitting at the top who followed him down!

ballooba · 09-05-2007 10:46pm

unkel wrote:

I'd say most drivers would have done so instinctively

Ah come on now. We're not all McGyver.

Obviously I'm talking about "other people" here, I am of course McGyver.

quarryman · 09-05-2007 10:50pm

it would have been a loooong roll down. those few seconds on his side at the top must have felt like an eternity.

ballooba · 09-05-2007 10:59pm

Wouldn't try that in my Auto. Engine braking? What's that!

Rovi · 09-05-2007 11:10pm

I'd say there was minimal to zero engine braking involved in that manoeuvre.
The only way out of that sort of thing is to drive through it, keeping the wheels turning at the same speed as the vehicle is descending the slope, thus giving some semblance of steering control.
Trying to brake or hold it on the engine would only lead to an out of control slide.