Agreed! I did that all last weekend!

Seriously. I’m buying my dad an Amazon Echo, and he can use her to help him try and track down his old E-Type or Delorean, lol.

Shut up, $kay! Don’t you know not to speak unless spoken to??? Jeez. Fookin’ women and their “input...”

I’m flying out 7 hours after my birthday ends, unfortunately :(

In your experience, how often does that happen? I do it all the time with rental cars, but never thought to try it with a plane ticket (dunno why.) Do you literally just go, “Thought I’d ask if there are any business or first-class seats still open that I might be able to sneak into?”

Which counter? I used to fly all the time with my parents as a kid, but I’ve only flown ONCE on my own since then, and am doing so again in January. Are you referring to the counter at the gate itself? Because the rest is all automated, IIRC.

You’re so wrong, it’s almost funny. Almost.

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Nearly all of these vehicles had locked tires, though. It isn’t impossible to lock them up. You just need the right conditions, such as here. Relatively low speed slides. ABS doesn’t function below ~5 MPH.

Lol true. But I’ve also ice raced my car with studless winter tires on frozen lakes that I could barely stand upright on without spontaneously falling over :P

Lol, I share that exact video on Facebook about 100 times every winter. In fact, I even shared it in another reply in this article somewhere.

ABS doesn’t function below ~5 MPH.

Sounds about the same as my test. I think my test lasted less than 3 minutes, and involved making a right turn, reversing in a straight line, and parallel parking, and... that’s about it.

On many vehicles, ABS doesn’t function below 5-6 MPH. For example, watch the brake test in this TireRack video (skip to 1:30).

Think about it, if ABS functioned across ALL speeds, then it would essentially operate indefinitely. There needs to be a cutoff where the brakes actually remain applied. On most vehicles that…

FYI, ABS doesn’t function below ~5 MPH, which is why most of these ABS-equipped vehicles had their wheels locked.

The bus with the wheel at full left-hand lock couldn’t influence its direction of travel because the brakes were locked. If your wheel isn’t spinning, it doesn’t matter where you point it.

If you are sliding downhill with your tires locked, you have zero control. If you allow the tires to spin, you do have SOME…

You don’t understand how ABS works. ABS doesn’t function below ~5 MPH. If you watch the video, you see that all of these vehicles tires are locked, meaning that ABS was not active, and meaning that they had absolutely zero control over the path the vehicle took.

I don’t understand your question. Yes, they were sliding downhill. If they had released the brakes, they would have had a much better chance of steering away from the pile of mangled metal at the bottom of it. With tires locked, you will slide whichever way gravity dictates. With the tires rolling, you do have a tiny…

Meh. It definitely isn’t a super grippy surface, but ALL of the vehicles in this clip had all four wheels locked. That was the biggest mistake. If these people had let go of the brake pedal, they might have fared much better.

Winter tires actually can provide a lot more ice grip than people think. I ice race on studless winter tires. However, as with any tire, they don’t work when you’ve got your brakes locked. If these people had simply let go of the goddamned brake pedal, they would have been able to avoid this pileup.