Seems the ones that don't stay planted do the following:
1) Jam on the brakes as hard as you can.
2) Panic and freeze.
3) Wait to hit something.
In all fairness, most of those videos were shot in the southern US, in sheer ice conditions, a bad combination of summer tires and no winter driving experience.
Black ice is a spectator sport once it goes a bit too far. Only hope is slow down before it happens, once it starts with a heavy vehicle, like a 4wd expedition, its pretty much over.
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
I witnessed this first hand on the 401 about 8 years ago. Freezing rain. I was in the middle lane in my Park Ave. An Econoline van in front of me started to spin while at the same time a semi started to jackknife to my right. He ended up in the shoulder while the Econoline did about three 360's and managed to avoid hitting anything. Meanwhile my ABS and stability control is going nuts.
God I loved that car!
