The best response when your car starts to skid is to
- ease off the accelerator and steer where you want to go ✓
- brake and steer in the direction of the skid
- steer away from the direction of the skid
- ease off the accelerator and steer away from where you want to go
Answer: A. ease off the accelerator and steer where you want to go
The best response is to ease off the accelerator and steer smoothly where you want the car to go.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's skid steps say that when the rear of your vehicle starts to skid, you should ease off the accelerator and look and steer smoothly in the direction you want to go. It gives an example: if the rear skids right, steer right. It also warns not to brake, because braking will make the situation worse. That matches the answer: reduce power and aim the car where you want it, rather than braking or steering away from your intended path.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. brake and steer in the direction of the skid — Braking is specifically warned against in the skid steps because it makes the situation worse, so this choice conflicts with the handbook.
- C. steer away from the direction of the skid — Steering away from the direction of the skid goes against the handbook's instruction to steer smoothly in the direction you want to go.
- D. ease off the accelerator and steer away from where you want to go — Easing off the accelerator is right, but steering away from where you want to go is the opposite of the handbook's guidance.
Remember it
Think: look and steer where you want to end up, with your foot off the gas and off the brake.