Awesome Experience

snipped-for-privacy@etolivia.com (Etienne) wrote: | I have a Forester S, MY01. It has been raining very hard here in | Austin, TX. I was accerlerating to get on the interstate. There was a | pick-up behind me also trying to get onto the Interstate. I noticed a | pond of water and shifted to the right to avoid the deeper section and | slowed down a little bit. At this point I was probably doing about | 60mph. I made it through the pond fine, but the pickup completely lost | it and ended up sliding 100ft in the grass.

I'd say that your experience is more a testament to driver judgment than car design. Hydroplaning is caused by speed, water depth, and tire pressure. What you did was minimize two of those factors by slowing down, and moving around it as best you could. Good move!

I, too, am in waterlogged Austin and wished more drivers shared your sense.

cheers,

-Brent

what tires and how old?

Carl

Etienne wrote:

Sumitomo Tires and Less than 1 year old.