The emergency driving is mostly the application of normal good driving practices
smooth steering and trouble and limiting your dependence on brakes but if and
when twenty miles an hour revs up to ninety for an emergency room.
You gotta know if you use the sixty
and that's what we're getting here at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's driving cars
fast turnaround made safe they're a big part of it now will start out with just a
regular turn around. If you are heading in a westerly direction
and you want to turn around and come back East knew that you had a dry way up here.
The first thing you'd want to do would be sure to place your car in a proper row
decision since it's a left hand turn.
You want to stay as far to the right as possible.
The next thing you want to do is to come into that driveway.
You'll want to use every inch of this available to you you'll want to at least get
into the driveway straight prefer Blee over to the right hand side so that
when you back out. You'll have more room to make your turn for the front
and to swing around without hitting any obstacles.
You'll keep your attention to the fraud.
Until you have cleared that obstacle then turn around to look out
that rear window continue backing of across the street until you get to about the
last two
or three feet before you're going to come to a stop here is the important part of
backing up quickly since you want to come out to your lap. You would reverse.
Sure steering.
Turning your steering wheel
and turning the front wheels to the left prior to coming to a stop you.
Now put it in gear and come right on out that is your first turn around
and then you'll have what is called a semi bootlegged turn it will be a little
quicker than
that type of a turn your really come down to the edge of your driveway
or the old thing that you're going to use the back into.
You then here's your car cross the street into a forty five degree angle with your
opening
that will put you in a proper angle the back end of this driveway then turn around
to look out the rear window
and start to back into your driveway you want to get in a straight you want to get
in as deep as possible but remember just prior to stopping reverse hearing it.
It turned out to the left and you can come right on out.
Now your last turn around is going to be the fastest
that you can make a lot of bootleg turn around you really come right down the
center of the street and as you start to come into your driveway.
You must remember to look out the left side of your car in the driver's window
and also the passenger's window. This will allow you to pick up the entire picture.
If you looked out the rear window.
You wouldn't be able to see the driveway or that any oncoming traffic.
This is your safest look out that window back right into that driveway.
Again getting your steering reversed while the vehicle is still moving vehicles Now
stop your steering reverse you put it in gear and come out
that is your fastest way on a code three one thing to realize is that your siren
and your emergency lights don't qualify you as an emergency drive more than a badge
and a gun make a competent thirty by forty five mph
went over to the emergency room including one with the new electronic twins on a
concern we will run on Windows.
When we hear the siren we will begin my When do grieve
when you get the final review the been out back
when.
It's been determined that it's sixty miles an hour.
Some of us are and will never reach a car hundred feet front of you of
that car is also going sixty miles an hour in other words don't comment during the
path in front of you with a siren driver probably literally until you're alongside
a.
And just imagine what it would be like with the windows rolled up
and not music blasting
and something else to remember your lights on high beam during the day are more
visible in your emergency.
This is our skid band on the turns we have a special soul which we have applied to
the track. We add a little bit of water
and at higher speeds of course that's where you really get the effect of weight
transfer which translates into skating. We can't get very much traction.
So we can put the car into a slide simulating a higher speed turn at a much slower
speed on this track.
We're going to be teaching the basic techniques maximum they're both controlled by
the proper use of road position proper speed proper steering control
proper throttle control.
Now as far as road position what we're trying to do is straight turns out a little
bit minimizing weight transfer and keep the car as flat as possible.
Throughout the turn when you get into a slide.
Remember you must steer in the direction of the skit.
So if you go into a slide in the back of your car sliding out to the right.
You would counter steer for this kid by steering to the right.
If you slide to the left.
You would counter steer by steering to the let speed control.
Is probably the most important thing about driving because if you drive too fast.
You can't stop the car. You can't.
Steer the car if we go into that turn too fast
and then decide to put our brakes on while we're in the turn.
We're going to slide right off the road hit the brakes.
You know we want to turn to the left then to the right.
You can make and it is pushing right off.
Should be correcting Now he waits too long to correct now doesn't get it
and goes off the left as a result he blew it
in turns to serve just a little bit too soon
or he got his wheels corrected by the slide and as a result the back
and push in the final too fast.
The brakes doesn't correction enough correction too soon
and each time you go off the track.
This is what we're likely to do disposition here is your back
and now here's the right way.
As soon as your back and starts to slide and before it's gone too far.
Start correcting by steering in the direction of the slack any negotiated turn all
the way around.
Once it goes into the slide we must control the back of our car with the throttle
because if we give it too much power the car will spin out if we don't give it any
power. We won't have any control over the back
and you're actually sort of steering the back of the car with the power
of a little yellow sign to see throughout the track or the speed
that you're going to be traveling.
We told you to go out
and drive this course especially could just want to drive the most you would have a
problem. The odds of this is not just drive fast or high speed train but proceed
and right.
They will go onto the track try to merge the cars to get there safely
fly or do so. Reading you're going into this tape
or you have two inches on each side of the car.
So any time
that you drive to a big area such as this it's real narrow got off easy.
Off of your left front fender and then there I was parked on your left being
that large cone this Serpentina represents a lane change is
similar to a freeway.
We're moving over one lane and we must control
or speed at the same time a steady smooth put it on thirty miles an hour
make the turn. Just as smooth as a can use in the principle of two hands steering.
All we're making is mind from the number four lane always to the number one line
which is the line on the freeway as we come out of the serpent team we have in
front of the left hand turn. We must be concerned about rope and there's an R. C.
If you go one of the turn too fast you're going to lose control.
I'm going to go off the road. So when you break the car.
Put your foot on a brake and bring it down hard when you enter your turn.
Soon as you get off your brake you should go to your throttle to apply PADI
or wheel rear wheels were going too fast.
So we break it down on the throttle the mandir apex maintain a steady speed
minimizing the transfer of weight keeping a car flat it's possible.
Here we must break down again we're too fast. So we break it down hard.
To a safe speed again a left turn. We have the park road position.
We're coming into the apex in the middle of the turn somewhere
and we have what we call an apex.
This is the tightest part of the turn where we have the most into the go for us.
If it's a left turn the apex will be on the left somewhere in that turn.
It's a right turn. It'll be on the right now.
Another fact
that we must be concerned with this road position if you have a left turn.
We will set up our car by entering from the right side if it's a right turn was set
up by being on the left. And then as.
Exit the turn let the car drift out in the direction of your center of before us
we bring into the backs the tightest by the turn
and we exit the turn in the direction of weight shift their weight transfer which
is always outside another left turn.
We come into the curve to our apex but he said turn out right back.
And another left turn
and then they exit the turn in a direction of center of the force.
Yes emergency driving calls for the right techniques
and something more first know yourself.
What you can handle at the wheel in terms of reaction time and coordination.
No two drivers are exactly the same second know
your vehicle. No two cars are alike either get the feel of what it can do
and what it cannot do but that combination of knowledge and the right techniques.
You can get where you're headed in a hurry and all in one.