[HOW TO DRIVE IN THE POURING RAIN]
Hi there smart drivers. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about how to
drive in the pouring rain and to deal with hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a result of
water pooling on the road. Now just before we get started here be sure to
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you can have a look at those. Now raining. It is the perfect day for rain. I'm just
about to go over the Coquihalla summit here on the Trans-Canada Highway. You can
see here on the map. Here it's about two hours from Vancouver proper...
east of Vancouver. And it's the Coquihalla summit. It's also the subject
of the TV show "Highway through Hell. And it has been pouring rain here and the
water is pooling on the roadway, and there's hydroplaning. I left early this
morning from Sidney, BC where I have a rental property on my way back to Vernon, BC, Canada.
It's a five hour drive and there's water pooling on the roadway and it is raining
heavily. So what I'm gonna show you is techniques to deal with the hydroplaning and
how to deal with that. Definitely do not be on cruise control;
I love cruise control, but when it's like this you can definitely not be on cruise
control because the car is gonna kick out a little bit once it starts lifting
up on top of those pools and water. We're gonna give you some techniques for
dealing with the hydroplaning. And keep your windshield wipers on even you might even
potentially think about putting some rain-x on your windshield. That'll help
keep your vision clear. And as well, you're going to have to be able to work
the heater controls to keep the defrost on and keep the windows clear so you can
see. And as well, keep the rain off your mirrors while you're driving. It's gonna
be a little bit daunting for those of you who are new to driving or just got your
license or working up to a commercial license. It's a bit daunting
when it's raining heavily, so we're gonna go for a drive here and we're gonna give you
some techniques and some information that will help you to stay safe while
you're driving in the pouring rain. So stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
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Hi there smart drivers, welcome back. Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about
driving in the rain and hydroplaning. And all of the techniques that apply to
driving at night are the same techniques that apply to driving in bad weather.
Whether it's snow, fog, rain. You're looking for landmarks, you're looking for
the other traffic on the roadway. You can see that I only have my windshield
wipers on here intermittent. You can either put rain-x on your windshield or
use a high quality car soap... automotive soap that's specifically designed for
washing cars and that will put a film on your windshield that will allow the rain
to sheet off and give you better vision when it's raining as it is right now. I
use McGuire's Gold car wash. I particularly like that. It's
really good. it doesn't leave films or rain spots on your vehicle after you
finish washing it. So there's really not a great deal of need to chamois your
vehicle. And the other added aspect is a clear windshield while you're driving. You
see how the speed limit reduces to 90km/hr here. You can see the spray coming off that white
vehicle in front of me. And as well, the water is pooling on the roadway. You can
see here in the footage that the vehicle in front of me is running through the pool of
water and the water spraying up. And the vehicles on the other side - the tractor
trailer came down there and sprayed water up into the air when it rolled
through the puddle and it came across the median onto my windshield. So that's
another aspect of it. That's gonna
happen at night is that your windshield is gonna go black from other vehicle's
spray up water and whatnot. You just got to take a breath and calmly turn your
windshield wipers on and get the windshield cleared. The other night when
I came down - three nights ago, it was the same thing. It was pouring rain all the
way down from Kamloops to Tsawwassen, BC, Canada to where you catch the ferry across to
Vancouver Island at Schwartz Bay there. And there was a great deal of water pooling
on the roadway. And one of the things that you have to do when the water is
pooling on the roadway is you have to get out of the driven ruts that are
created by big trucks and other traffic on the roadway. So that means either
moving to the right or moving to the left in your lane. In the event of the other night
when the water was pooling on the roadway, what I did was I drove with -
because it was dark and it was late at night and there was very little traffic on
the highway--what I did was I set the left wheel on the centerline between the
two lanes going in the same direction. That way I was able to get the wheels
out of the ruts where the water is pooling and there's less likely that
you're going to be hydroplaning at that juncture. Now if you're in the left lane
as I am right now, which you can do is move right over to
the left of the lane and that way you're out of the ruts on the roadway and it's
less likely that your vehicles going to hydroplane now the lighter the vehicle
the more chance it is that it's going to hydroplane those of you driving buses
and big trucks though there's less chance that it's going to hydroplane
it's going to sit down on the roadway and it's actually going to plow through
that lighter cars especially if you don't
have good tires on my couple of years ago when I first bought this vehicle I
didn't I was just trying to use up the tires and get as much life out of them
as I could in the summer time and the tires didn't have a great deal of tread
on them because the tires didn't have a great deal of tread on them
the vehicle was really susceptible to hydroplaning with any amount of rain on
the roadway so know that that if you got bad tires on your vehicle or they're not
good quality tires you're going to be more susceptible to hydroplane and
hydroplane is essentially when the tire rides up over the top of the surface of
the water it skims along like a surfboard on the water and you lose all
control of your vehicle of the steering in traction now know that the treads on
your tires yes they allow you some grip but when it's raining and there's a lot
of water on the roadway the treads on the tires actually work as a pump and
they pump that water out from underneath the tire to allow the tire to continue
to have contact with the road surface and good
tires that have good tread zone of high quality tires whether their Firestone
Michelin's where it's Shone's any of the high quality tires will pump
up to a gallon a second up from the bottom of those tires and if they can
pump that kind of water they're very good titers and those are
the kinds of tires that you want because you're going to have more control
because your tires are going to have contact with the road surface now you
can see here in the dashcam that we're coming up to the Great Bear tunnel this
is the entrance to the steepest part of the Coquihalla as we're going up here
the Coquihalla at this point goes up to I think it's about a 13 maybe a 14%
grade which is really steep
we're all Prince's orange black that's the name of the car and kids named it
really struggles to get up here and sometimes I gotta go down to 3rd and you
can see I'm right over in the right-hand Lane this is the truck lane and this
this Lane is really rough going up over the Coquihalla here
because the trucks called stay over to the right lane here and there's three
lanes of traffic going up over the coke and the trucks go clear and they really
just need this because super bees as you can see there on the left
coming down 140,000 pounds and they're pretty rough on a pageant roadway
especially when they're going over the st. Patrick roadway again and again and
again and you can see the truck up in front of me here has the four-way
flashers on that indicates there's a little bit of hydroplaning you could
feel here the ancient kick up because the Tigers started spinning because they
were sitting on top of the water and I don't have it on cruise control so
basically all I do is just take my foot off the throttle soon as I take my foot
off the throttle to be a wheel stop spinning and they set back down now when
the truck said the four-way flashers on like that in Canada in the United States
it means that they're traveling less than 60 kilometers an hour or 40 miles
an hour for those of you in the States and that could be both uphill and
downhill because a lot of times there are separate truck speeds which governor
how fat are which governor govern how fast they can go down they fail and they
are regulated how fast they go down the hill the reason before that is because
of runaway trucks and losing their brakes the brakes overheating and taking
off down the hill I'll put a video up here for you on downhill braking that
I've done there's another one but this truck in front of me here doesn't have
his four-way flashers on what I can almost guarantee you that these two
trucks in front of you are going less than 60 kilometres an hour so I've moved
over I'm almost to the top of a summit now which is also the end you can see
the sign there at the end of the Avalanche area you can see the set of
super piece here this one with the red tarps on it was back there when I was
getting ready in the chain-up area doing 60 kilometres an hour
and so lots of trucks climbing up over the cocoa hall this is the main
trans-canada highway that runs east or west across our great country
and we're at the top of the summit the Coquihalla summit now
and the speed limit here is 120 kilometers an hour which i think is
about 75 miles an hour we'll see you in the States
and you can see it's very wet there's lots of rain on the roadway lots of
water in the roadway just at us another 100 feet 200 feet up the mountain there
you can see there's snow there
the mountain so winter is definitely on it's on its way we are in the late
October here the 22nd of October 2017 here it's also a variable-speed corridor
through here on the top of mount you can see that it's gone there's construction
it's 90 kilometres an hour so just slowing down and moving back over to the
right lane pass that truck
and you can see that we've got a bit of fog up here as well that's the thing
with high mountain passes is that you'll get the clouds sitting down low on top
of the mountains and because we're really high
it looks like fog when in fact it's actually the clouds and you can probably
see that in the dashcam here in front of me
it's a critical log here
and of course it's slow it off on the raining here a little bit and we've got
the spray coming off the big trucks here usually it's not too bad on this truck
it's coming straight off the back but you just want to have your windshield
wipers on you might want to turn them on fold I just have mine intermittent but
you can have them on tall as you're coming up you see the truck
you see the spray coming off of it you might just want to turn them on and pull
there's the top of the summit elevation 10 1080 feet above sea level and where
I've been through here several times in the last few weeks so there's
construction here they're doing construction on the bridge up here and
it's down to a single lane you can see that the speed limits reduced to 90
kilometers an hour maybe they have the bridge open now I came through the other
day and it was still under construction it down to a single lane the other point
about this is when it's rainy and foggy like this you're going to get
the windows are gonna fog up inside your car you can just roll down your window a
little bit and turn your defrost on high in most vehicles when you turn the
defrost on high the air conditioners going to come on to the air conditioning
helps to dry out the air and will pull the moisture out of the cabin of the
vehicle and will help to defrost your windows and keep them clear you see
there that I open the window just a crack and as soon as they open the
window my passenger window a little bit and got some airflow from outside the
windows instantly cleared up inside the vehicle the ones in the back are still a
little bit foggy but for the most part the windows are all cleared here in the
front in the main viewing area and you can see here yes in fact they haven't
finished the bridge or open it up again it's down to a single lane but on this
speed air has gone 250 kilometers an hour or 30 miles an hour
it goes down to a single lane on my side there and I was just judging the gap in
front of me I was gonna try and go past that truck and then I got up beside him
and decided that I wasn't going to and let him have the right-of-way because
remember the right-of-way has always given never taken so I gave him that
truck might be driving the truck - I hope so the right-of-way to go in front
of me rather than trying to scream past them because it doesn't over the course
of a long trip doesn't take any time in your day to be
nice to other people especially big trucks and actually we have a truck
awareness program going on here pretty slim here right now you
there's see the signs back that said give trucks space so they're
trying to educate the general public about big trucks and them to eat more
space and then they have bigger blind areas around the trucks those types of
things so just give them good space when you do pass them just take your time and
pass quick review of driving in the rain it can be a bit intimidating especially
for those of you who don't have a whole lot of experience driving when your
vision is obstructed by rain and fog and mist and those types of things
especially when the spray is coming off the other vehicles and there's a lot of
rain and it's pooling on the roadway and it's causing your vehicle to hydroplane
so as I said make sure you're off cruise control you get your foot on the
throttle because if the front end starts to move around the wheels have written
up on the top of the water and it's called hydroplaning and you lose
traction so basically all you do is just take your foot off the throttle the
front end will drop back down and it'll regain the traction it's just that
you're going too fast for the conditions of the roadway another couple of
suggestions get out of the ruts because the ruts in the roadway there where the
vehicles drive is where the water is going to pool so either move to the left
of the lane so you want to move to one of the outer edges it's better if you
can move away from the other line of traffic if there's two lanes of traffic
move away from the other lane of traffic to get the wheels out of the ruts that
way you won't encounter the puddles and whatnot another technique that I
suggested is to put rain-x on your windshield or a good quality automotive
shampoo that will do the similar thing it will cause the water to sheet off
your windshield and give you better vision and better visibility while
you're driving in the rain and fog and whatnot when you're passing larger
vehicles know that you're going to get a lot of spray off those so if you don't
have your windshield wipers on full at that point you just have them on
intermittent turn them up to fall and that way you'll be prepared when you go
pass the other vehicle to have your windshield wipers on and you'll be able
to have clear vision as well all of the same techniques and skills that driving
at night apply to driving when your vision is obstructed by rain or snow or
other inclement weather so I'll put a card up here in the corner for you for
the video on night driving if you hadn't had a look at that already definitely
have a look at that and that will give you techniques and skills of following
other traffic looking for landmarks and looking farther down the road to you
know find out where you're going and where the road is going when your vision
is obstructed and what I'll do is I'll make another video on night driving in
the rain because that's a specific kind of video because it can be really
challenging because specially in urban areas because the light from the street
lights and whatnot reflects off the rain and the water pooling on the roadway and
causes glare and it's really difficult to see at night when it's raining and
there's glare from the lights and whatnot so I'll make another video on
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