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I'm going to hazard a guess that this is down South. If you ever wonder why a dusting of snow causes so many accidents in the South, just take a look at their tires.
A dusting of snow causes accidents here a lot more because that shit melts when it touches the ground and then freezes a little while later and you end up with ice on the bottom covered in snow.
In addition to that, people don't get practice driving on it because it only happens once or twice a year usually at most.
Have vacationed in Florida, I got the impression that a lot of US cars generally are not in good shape. Bumpers hanging loose, mirrors broken/gone, big dents in doors. Does the US have anything like a mandatory annual checkup?
In Florida, no
Our equivalent of this without snow is the little bit after it's just started raining and the oil hasn't been washed away from the road, it becomes very slick and you find out very quickly how your tire tread is, if you didn't already know
This is exactly it. Most places don’t seem to have the equivalent to an MOT (UK cars over 3 years old need this annually) and when they do have checks they’re nowhere near as strict.
After watching the video a dozen times it seems like the driver was going around the same speed as everyone else turning the corner in the video. You can barely see their brake lights are on when they enter the frame and not when they execute the turn so it shouldn't be brake lock up unless by mechanical failure. Truly the only thing left I can think that would cause this is poorly maintained tires/alignment. This video should remind you to check your tires every couple months for decent tread and even wear because they have tread for a reason.
Taking the corner too fast for conditions plus too much acceleration, too early, on wet roads. Back tires start spinning, lose traction, and continue the momentum of the turn. Too little weight in the back and a high center of gravity aren't the best for control. Especially if it's the first rain in a while, and the roads are extra slick.
Plus, it's an SUV. Glorified truck. Always light on the rear. Also always with an idiot at the wheel who doesn't belong in that big of a vehicle. "But they're safer" - except for everyone around them.
This happened to me once in my Volvo 240. It had just finished a light rain, and I was coming around a gentle curve approaching a stoplight. Car just did a complete pirouette until it was facing the opposite direction in the same lane. Luckily the road was deserted. Absolutely scared the piss out of me.
Classic [liftoff oversteer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-off_oversteer). The wet road and the probably bald tires are what made it possible at low speed.
Indeed, Abarth with recaro seats, and i enjoy making fun of me. I owned a 944t before and tested several 20 year-old Boxsters, and decided to stay with my 2017 Fiat. It's the turbo miata everyone said they wanted but no one bought, and it's fantastic. I should sell because I got a good deal on it and it's worth more than I pad, but I like it too much!
It still applies. In rwd if you brake you bring the weight to the front still. Creating a pendulum. In a fwd you apply as much gas as you can, rwd you modulate it.
Downshifting mid drift is pretty much clutch kicking what terrible advice that’s going to make it worse, I own multiple rwd cars and I regularly drive them hard you want to be applying throttle and counter steering. No braking or lifting off this will make you drift more.
I've done this same thing in both a S2000 and a Tacoma with mud tires. No bald tread for me. Just a little too much throttle going around an elevated turn on top of a certain treated surface caused this. We have this one road around here that's concrete and you absolutely have less traction on it compared to pavement/macadam. Just gotta go slower around corners if it's wet and you are in RWD.
Most probably bald tires, but carrying something really heavy in the back could cause this. Maybe if the ignition turned off, somehow that steering wheel lock could do it.
Driver’s side front tire hit the grass in the median and spun with no traction. Front passenger tire overcorrected and went into counterclockwise spin out.
I had something similar happened to me a few years ago in the winter in Canada. I was waiting at the light to go straight through North. A car coming from the right making a left turn to go past me south, did this similar type of spin out, crossed the median separating the left turn lane from the straight south lane, and hit the back left side of my car. If someone had been turning left they would’ve hit them instead of me. To this day I have no idea how they managed to do that. Somehow they must’ve been turning too fast and overcorrected.
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Probably riding on tires with no tread.
I'm going to hazard a guess that this is down South. If you ever wonder why a dusting of snow causes so many accidents in the South, just take a look at their tires.
This is Somerville Mass
Bonus idiot points then.
Well it coulda been worcester
Haha 🤣 I got what you did there! 😉 👍
A dusting of snow causes accidents here a lot more because that shit melts when it touches the ground and then freezes a little while later and you end up with ice on the bottom covered in snow. In addition to that, people don't get practice driving on it because it only happens once or twice a year usually at most.
And in those conditions, even brand new summer tires won't help you.
Have vacationed in Florida, I got the impression that a lot of US cars generally are not in good shape. Bumpers hanging loose, mirrors broken/gone, big dents in doors. Does the US have anything like a mandatory annual checkup?
Some states have inspections, yes.
In Florida, no Our equivalent of this without snow is the little bit after it's just started raining and the oil hasn't been washed away from the road, it becomes very slick and you find out very quickly how your tire tread is, if you didn't already know
Here in Massachusetts we have yearly inspection so bald tires would be caught there (ideally)
This is exactly it. Most places don’t seem to have the equivalent to an MOT (UK cars over 3 years old need this annually) and when they do have checks they’re nowhere near as strict.
Yup, same here in the Netherlands, the APK.
Yep, this or really old, generic tires that turned hard.
Bald tires. Crazy people.
After watching the video a dozen times it seems like the driver was going around the same speed as everyone else turning the corner in the video. You can barely see their brake lights are on when they enter the frame and not when they execute the turn so it shouldn't be brake lock up unless by mechanical failure. Truly the only thing left I can think that would cause this is poorly maintained tires/alignment. This video should remind you to check your tires every couple months for decent tread and even wear because they have tread for a reason.
Agreed, it had been raining all day too so this wasn’t a recently slick road
Taking the corner too fast for conditions plus too much acceleration, too early, on wet roads. Back tires start spinning, lose traction, and continue the momentum of the turn. Too little weight in the back and a high center of gravity aren't the best for control. Especially if it's the first rain in a while, and the roads are extra slick.
Plus, it's an SUV. Glorified truck. Always light on the rear. Also always with an idiot at the wheel who doesn't belong in that big of a vehicle. "But they're safer" - except for everyone around them.
SUVs especially aren't really light on the rear and neither are crew cab short box 4x4s, by far the most common pickup configuration.
Bad tires.
It wasnt nearly fast enough for decent tires to have that outcome. They must be driving on slicks.
Sounds like a skill issue to me. The right inputs would've maybe sent the car a little wide, but not spinning...
Helluva way to make a U-turn!
Slow and steady wins the race!!
*like a glove*
New parallel parking technique
Bald tires.
Imagine chilling in the left lane at a light and somehow getting hit from the left
The poor guy after looked so confused!!
Bald tires + wet road + RWD + no traction control = slip n slide™️
I had to watch this twice to see it 💀
it took 3 loops for me...
I’m still trying to figure out what I’m supposed to be seeing.
Around the 7 second mark, you'll see an SUV in the far left turning lane spin out.
Ohhhh, there it is! Thank you.
I was too distracted by the guy on the bike man
Obviously he realized he was going the wrong way.
Banana peel
It's a trailblazer... very easy to hydroplane... I learned from experience.
Either really bad tread, or maybe some oil on a wet road...or combination of both.
Make a turn, stomp the gas. Bald rear tires in the rain are never a good idea.
This is why I try to hit the gas further into a turn.
The fanciest u-turn ever
This happened to me once in my Volvo 240. It had just finished a light rain, and I was coming around a gentle curve approaching a stoplight. Car just did a complete pirouette until it was facing the opposite direction in the same lane. Luckily the road was deserted. Absolutely scared the piss out of me.
Classic [liftoff oversteer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-off_oversteer). The wet road and the probably bald tires are what made it possible at low speed.
A day or two ago in the Boston area? I have an appointment to get new tires on my Fiata on Tuesday, thanks for reminder.
Yup this was yesterday (Saturday) in Somerville!
Fiata? 124 Spider? Lol
Indeed, Abarth with recaro seats, and i enjoy making fun of me. I owned a 944t before and tested several 20 year-old Boxsters, and decided to stay with my 2017 Fiat. It's the turbo miata everyone said they wanted but no one bought, and it's fantastic. I should sell because I got a good deal on it and it's worth more than I pad, but I like it too much!
Probably bald tires and it looks like he hit the gas a little to hard
Easy, really bad tires.
Acceleration + bad tires + wet roads + road geometry (+ old suspension probably)
Got the wrong compound fitted during pitstop
All gas, no brakes
Braking during a spin is the worst thing you can do. Applying throttle is the correct thing if you want to avoid spinning.
That's for front wheel drive, not rear.
It still applies. In rwd if you brake you bring the weight to the front still. Creating a pendulum. In a fwd you apply as much gas as you can, rwd you modulate it.
Rwd you downshift and let the rear drag.
Downshifting mid drift is pretty much clutch kicking what terrible advice that’s going to make it worse, I own multiple rwd cars and I regularly drive them hard you want to be applying throttle and counter steering. No braking or lifting off this will make you drift more.
I've never seen 28 so clear of traffic, it's beautiful.
Accelerated thru the corner on a slick road with bald tires.
They pizza’d and French fry’d at the same time. Hilarity ensued.
Didn’t straighten up at the end of the turn, and worn tyres.
Bald tires, wet conditions, and they appear to accelerate too earlier leaving the corner. So they lose the back end and physics does the rest.
I've done this same thing in both a S2000 and a Tacoma with mud tires. No bald tread for me. Just a little too much throttle going around an elevated turn on top of a certain treated surface caused this. We have this one road around here that's concrete and you absolutely have less traction on it compared to pavement/macadam. Just gotta go slower around corners if it's wet and you are in RWD.
Bald tires in the rain will make this happen
Shit tires worn out. ABS not helping.
I had to rewatch it, the u-turn was so smooth Kept on looking for an obvious crash lol
Needs some tire rogaine.
Sticking with softs when the conditions clearly call for intermediates. Risky strategy. Should have pitted a lap earlier.
Wet road. Rear wheel drive. Bald tires.
No tread on your tires, a little gas on the exit of the turn and…
Bald tires and wet roads….
Most probably bald tires, but carrying something really heavy in the back could cause this. Maybe if the ignition turned off, somehow that steering wheel lock could do it.
More traction on the front tires than the back tires
Rear wheel drive. This phenomenon is known as oversteer. Generally caused by worn tires, poor throttle control, not paying attention.
Driver’s side front tire hit the grass in the median and spun with no traction. Front passenger tire overcorrected and went into counterclockwise spin out.
Lmao funniest one I’ve seen so far.
I had something similar happened to me a few years ago in the winter in Canada. I was waiting at the light to go straight through North. A car coming from the right making a left turn to go past me south, did this similar type of spin out, crossed the median separating the left turn lane from the straight south lane, and hit the back left side of my car. If someone had been turning left they would’ve hit them instead of me. To this day I have no idea how they managed to do that. Somehow they must’ve been turning too fast and overcorrected.
The slip & slide
Didn't want the tesla to get ahead. /s