Show S Drivers Skid 1 For Safety Skidding for safety is the subject matter of a unique school for drivers who learn to skid for safety's sake EACH WINTER for the past several years some 60 high school and college teachers of driver education have taken part in this Skid School conducted con con- conducted ducted by the National Safety Councils Council's Committee on Winter Driving Hazards on a glare ice course at Stevens Point Wisconsin The next school scheduled for a week two-week session starting Feb 9 1970 will consist of four separate two-day two workshops The purpose of this program program pro pro- program gram is is to give driver education education education edu edu- cation teachers hand first-hand experience experience experience ex ex- in controlling skids under adverse conditions says Ross G Wilcox Executive Executive Executive tive Secretary of the Safe Winter Driving League and Chairman of the Councils Council's winter driving committee Combining theory with practise practice practice tice tise these winter workshops provide a rare opportunity for driver educators to develop develop devel devel- op the special handling techniques techniques techniques tech tech- required on slippery pavements Ultimately of course we hope that this special training will ill be passed on to high school students WILCOX reported that the driver education workshops were an outgrowth of the annual annual annual an an- nual test projects sponsored by the Committee for more than 25 years As a part of th these se test programs the Committee has evaluated d sense common-sense tips for safer winter driving developed bythe by bythe bythe the Committee on Winter Driving Hazards 1 Get the feel of the road by accelerating carefully carefully carefully care care- fully to see if wheels spin or brake gently to see if they skid Reduce speed ac ac- cordingly 2 Increase your following distance It takes three to nine times as far to stop on snow and ice as on dry pave pave- ment 3 Pump your br brakes kes to slow or stop dont don't jam them em on one An intermittent pumping action three to five times per second keeps the wheels rolling rolling rolling roll roll- ing and helps maintain steering steering steering steer steer- ing control 4 Have good tires with good tre treas Better yet use snow tires which provide half again as much pulling power in snow as regular tires Studded Studded Studded Stud Stud- ded tires offer still snow moret more t l belf iol 5 Always carry reinforced tire chains in the trunk of your car for use during severe Severe severe se se- vere snow and ice conditions They provide four to seven times as much traction on snow or ice as regular tires 6 Keep your windshield and windows clear at all times Replace streaking wiper blades gone dead from exposure to sun wind and oily road film Be sure that your windshield washer solution contains adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate anti the performance of drivers vehicles and equipment under under under un un- der a wide range of slippery surface conditions We UWe recognized long ago that some of the special skills developed in these tests could be invaluable to the average driver he said And by inaugurating this program with driver educators we think we have made a small start toward the day when many high schools will beable beable be beable able to offer some of this specialized training as part parti i of C their regular driver education education education edu edu- cation program Several schools have already done so IN THE TIlE meantime Wilcox Wilco x urged all drivers to heed si six x |