Talk:Hydroplaning (tires)

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Contents 1 Messy 2 Should this still be a stub? 3 Dual wheels 4 Stop rotating? 5 Rewrite 6 Picture

[edit] Messy

this planing stuff is a mess --

-- and whats worse I think this article is technically wrong -- surely aquaplaning (or whatever) is the loss of friction between the vehicle and the ground, the wheels can rotate or not, until there is sufficient traction then the rotation of the wheels don't effect the vehicles speed.-- IMHO the problem when aquaplaning is steering, because without the tires being on the road you cannot steer. What happens as i recall is water builds up in a wave in front of the tires, a thin layer of water is trapped between the tyre and the road. The tread of the tyre tries to force the water to the outside the tire to increase grip.

Maybe someone could spellcheck, review and do something with the above

I think i this section needs a major tidy up

--Davelane 23:13, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Should this still be a stub?

Has this article evolved enough to remove the stub listings? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Epolk (talk • contribs) 04:54, 17 June 2005

[edit] Dual wheels

I believe that there was a sports car that had dual wheels, arranged inline, in order to combat hydroplaning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.238.38.195 (talk • contribs) 13:41, 6 July 2005

[edit] Stop rotating?

"They stop rotating," <---do they ever actually stop? This seems wrong.

Also, would planing on leaves be called "hydroplaning?" Hydro means water. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.44.39.88 (talk • contribs) 06:41, 25 January 2006

[edit] Rewrite

I rewrote a lot of this article. In general, I feel it's technically accurate, though there is one particular line I'm not comfortable with:

"An element between the tires and the road that reduces friction, then, will diminish control. If that element is nonfrictional, like water, the vehicle may lose control entirely."

Water isn't 'nonfrictional'. I left it that way because clarifying would have ovewhelmed the point of that line, but what I meant is that water has very little relative friction with itself compared to that between rubber and road. I'm sure there's a technical term for this; adhesive coefficient or somesuch, though I suspect instead of finding it, that line could be rewritten to skirt around it.

Dave Indech 03:22, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

I should take a picture of the front of my car with the subheading: "This is what happens when a car hydroplanes into a jersey barrier on an interstate". — Deckiller 22:15, 4 April 2008 (UTC)