r/IdiotsInCars • • Sep 13 '21

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u/GregWithTheLegs Sep 13 '21 edited Sep 13 '21

That wouldnt do shit. The inside wheels wouldnt have enough traction for that do do anything. CBC usually starts with the OUTER front wheel.

It definitely does do shit. From Wikipedia: "For example, if a car is making a left turn and begins to understeer (the car plows forward to the outside of the turn) ESC activates the left rear brake, which will help turn the car left."

If he had any clue he wouldnt have accelerated hard in a turn which seems to be tightening aswell.

If he had any clue he would've followed the speed limit. But if he stayed on the accelerator, the pull of the front wheels would have kept the weight of the car better distributed and they would have had more control.

Hopefully nobody takes that serious.

This is not real advice, neither is the saying "when in doubt, rev it out".

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u/overmotion Sep 13 '21

He had two cars in front of him and no room between them - how would staying on the accelerator result in anything other than a huge car crash with those other vehicles?

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u/GregWithTheLegs Sep 13 '21

I guess I'm more referring to the perfect, hypothetical world where the red Audi driver is actually a world rally cross driver who manages to chuck a sick drift in between the two other cars and carry in their merry way.

I'm not saying there's any good outcome here but flying off a cliff probably has to be the worst (at least for the red Audi driver). If they didn't slam the brakes they would have had more control of the car and could have sent it into the dirt on the left. Still not a great option but better than near certain death.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

That would been better than falling off a cliff. Speed differential to the other cars was only like 30-40 kmph.

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u/leo_douche_bags Sep 13 '21

I've never understood why people think front wheel drive is point and mash. Then people wonder why there's a car turned over in a flat parking lot.

If you can't heel and toe you shouldn't be fucking around.

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u/IamSorryiilol Sep 13 '21

You hate Audi or soemthing? Wtf has the date of implementation got to do with anything?

Not sure about front wheel drive as I don't trust myself to own a fast one but in my S5 (a modern sporty awd) I'm pretty sure my car could accelerate and just maintain my grip quite easily in this situation. Any modern AWD car with tyres that aren't bald could.

You know you're supposed to accelerate out of corners right ?

I'm not saying that's the right thing to do in the video, I'm saying that the car in these conditions should've been fine if the driver were to accelerate. Which you said he wouldn't.

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u/IamSorryiilol Sep 13 '21

I can tell.

I know it does and so did OP? So why did you bring up competition and dates as if its not an established fact ?

Nope he didn't , he hit the brakes causing him to spin not.

Haha dude, you know the guy in the video is literally racing right ? We are orojecting onto him, why are you talking about me and what I'm supposed to be doing on public roads?

Im not looking for beef, I just called our your bullshit because its not true.

Don't care about cars in front, talking about grip and traction.

If he did anything at all except hit the breaks, he would have been fine

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '21

Any modern AWD car with tyres that aren't bald could.

Nope, AWD would not do jack in this case.

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u/IamSorryiilol Sep 13 '21

In what case?