Herbert Graf wrote:
>> > I think these things become natural over the years of driving
>> > experience. Most case when there is an emergency situation you do not
>> > think, just act and then when it is over you start thinking what has
>> > happened.
>>
>> How can you train for that?
>
> 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 do this every time we visit our family up North. :) Icy roads are never a 
problem in Phoenix, so my body "forgets" what it's like when I hit the brake 
and the car starts to skid.

Vitaliy 

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