Winter weather - and driving

[Harryprice]

Travel sickness is produced by a disparity between the signal from our inner ear vestibular structures, which measure our positional attitude, and the eyes. When the two produce conflicting signals it can produce nausea. So, if you are in a boat cabin and cannot see outside, your eyes say you should stay vertical. If the boat is pitching, your inner ear disagrees, producing sickness! The best way I've found to stop it is to lie down, when your inner ear seems to not care any more.

The story about chains predated those 'static' things that used to hang from cars (I'm that old!). Those static things were useless anyway since the tyres dissipated far more static.

[chaggle]

Isn't a car an effective Faraday cage where any static would stay on the outer surface and not affect anything inside?

BTW if tyre dissipate static from the car how come I get an electric shock when alighting on a dry day?

[Harryprice]

Isn't a car an effective Faraday cage where any static would stay on the outer surface and not affect anything inside?

It's a safe place to be in a thunder storm!

Static will accumulate on the non conductive surfaces. Depending on the configuration of the car, you could say it was effectively a capacitor!

BTW if tyre dissipate static from the car how come I get an electric shock when alighting on a dry day?

I didn't say they dissipated all static, just more than those puny rubber things.

[bindeweede]

Also in a front wheel drive car, if you get a bit stuck you can spin the wheel to give yourself a different angle of attack - can't do that with rear wheel drive.

I had a Triumph 2.5 PI once with Automatic rear wheel drive. Crap in the snow if you needed to get anywhere but FUN if it didn't really matter. Wheel spin for 5 miles anyone?

Well, getting out of your BWM to give it a push, but leaving it in gear........not a great idea.

[brianp]

Well, getting out of your BWM to give it a push, but leaving it in gear........not a great idea.

What a tw*t !

[Pebble]

Driving this am at -8oC, what impressed me were all the idiots going at 70mph or more on the motorway - trust is obviously in built into the psyche of humans, if it looks & feels OK then it is OK!

[Tony Williams]

Driving this am at -8oC, what impressed me were all the idiots going at 70mph or more on the motorway - trust is obviously in built into the psyche of humans, if it looks & feels OK then it is OK!

Yep - nice dark surface, touch of a sheen on it - got to be water at minus 8, right?

[farmersboy]

Driving to and fro to Milton Keynes in 1st/2nd gear has, and is continuing to be, an education - in how not to drive. Up to 2 hours to travel 22 miles stuck behind nervous drivers who clearly have no idea how drive on snowy roads is frustrating, especially when the traffic going the other way is always moving faster than us.

Leave plenty of room behind the car in front, no sudden changes of speed, and please don't keep slowing right down for the hills - momentum is everything. Oh, and if you spend 10 minutes spinning your wheels on the same patch of road, get the hint and copy what everyone stuck behind you had to do - roll back down the hill, turn around and go the other way. Muppet.