On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:45:40 -0500, "Herbert Graf" <hkgraf@gmail.com>
said:

> You practice "loosing control" in controlled situations.
> 
> Every winter, when the opportunity arises I pull into an empty parking
> lot and "refresh" my loss of control skills (assuming there's enough
> snow).
> 
> > I don't want to accumulate sufficient
> > experience with children running into the street. I think too many of
> > them would get hit before I learned. 
> 
> That's not what we are talking about. When you are familiar with loss of
> control your actions to counter it become very instinctual and
> automatic. The "steer into the skid" sort of stuff never even enters the
> mind, you just act accordingly.

I know how to drive out of control, I've had lots of track time and
off-road time and snow/ice time, etc as well as performance driving
training. But if a kid runs in front of me I hit the brakes. Maybe
you're different? To me, it's panic time when it's a real person out
there and not just a pylon or a raccoon.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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