If they wouldn't normally, they would if they tried driving like I (sometimes) do. I love chucking the ass out sideways. I'm not sure how many people can recover properly from that - as I can get it out pretty sideways by using varied pressure on the gas pedal. It's a bit of a feat to get it going straight again.
That is not east to do. I remember one night I was driving my girlfriends car in a snow storm down the highway and it decided to go sideways and I turned to correct and it went sideways the other direction, so I corrected again and it went back sideways opposite again, and every time I tried to correct it would just go too far again and then came the curve in the road and I went sideways right into the ditch and up the embankment and the car stopped on its rooftop
Yeah, that sounds about right. From just reading that, it sounds like you over-corrected - which would be normal. That's what most people do when they think they know what they're doing. New drivers just steer wherever. It's easy to over-correct, way too easy.
But, if you'd had a long-enough straightaway, you probably would have figured it out and not bumped into anything.
I call it The Axl Rose Shuffle when I go back and forth like that. The name should kinda clue you in - it's a steady and rhythmic affair.
LoL The Axl Rose Shuffle
The damned car went back and forth like that at least a half a dozen times before the curve. It probably didn't help that I was going 70MPH, but the damned thing did not want to straighten out, even with the slightest turn of the wheel, just enough to get it to come back. It would just keep going into the skid
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