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Taking corners is one of the most difficult things to do in real life and by extension this game.

Braking before you take a curve is also extremely helpful for maintaining traction. Slowly apply brakes at first to get a feel for what your car can do, then try your best to always keep your car just on the edge of lock for maximum brake performance. It seems counterintuitive to not use your full braking power, but you don't want to lock them. In cars without ABS you're going to need to exercise brake disipline and not slam on the brakes at high speeds. The tires stop gripping the road properly, and usually cause a loss of control (not good when you're likey about to make a turn). Car interiors usually have an ABS indicator too.ĪBS works by preventing the wheels from locking up, which basically causes the same issue as before but in reverse- instead of spinning fast at low speed, the wheels spin slow (rather, not at all) at high speed. You can tell if a car has ABS by the fact that the HUD's ABS icon will flash when braking hard. Anti-lock brakes (known as ABS, or anti-lock braking system for those of you in the comments) are only found on modern cars, and they improve your braking a ton.

Every car has brakes, but they're not all as good, and additionally they might or might not come with a technology known as anti-lock braking. Same goes for turns- if you've slowed down before the curve, slamming the gas halfway through can still spin you out from the sudden power spike.

Easing into the pedal when starting from a stop will prevent you from spinning the wheels and thus losing traction. It happens when your tires don't have enough grip to handle the torque going into them and it means that you won't have very much traction for steering and you're wasting energy spinning the wheels. This looks cool, but despite what Hollywood says this phenomenon (known rather straightforwardly as 'wheelspin') isn't very beneficial. If you're not careful and slam on the gas, you'll likely get noise and a big cloud of smoke.

Obviously, each vehicle is unique, but there are some complications not immediately obvious to a non-car-savvy driver.įirstly, there is the matter of accelerating (speeding up). Something that may catch you off guard when you're driving is the way different cars behave under stress.