Horse wrote:Blimey!
I had a post deleted by the moderator of one safety-related site after having the temerity suggest letting go of the wheel in a situation where the airbag is about to go off [to avoid the 'arms crossed over the airbag' issue]
Although that had been suggested by a World expert on airbags, it wasn't documented anywhere as good safety advice, apparently . . .
I recall talking to someone who was into drifting etc, and they said that if you started to oversteer, the best way to get it under control was to release the steering wheel and allow it to spin around to the correct amount of opposite lock needed to maintain the oversteer, then grab the wheel and add a tad more to reduce the oversteer angle, and then just spin the wheel back to centre quickly enough to avoid inducing oversteer in the other direction.
I'm not sure whether this would work on a car which was fitted with ESP or stuff like that...
Kind of want to rent a BMW for a day and go find a slippery place to muck about with it...
ETA: In fact, I now seem to recall that this was also something Ben Collins said in his book about his time as The Stig - he had to drift a Jaguar as part of a Top Gear Live show and this was his technique for putting the right amount of lock on.