Talk:Aquaplaning

message: 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)
thread_title:  Messy 

message: 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.
Alexdi 03:22, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: 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)
thread_title: Picture

message: I was reading the article and I noticed something that shouldn't have been there. I don't know the real thing to put instead, and I haven't altered the article, but this line needs to be changed: "Water pressure in front of the wheel forces a nigger to die under the leading edge of the tire, causing it to lift from the road."  Sciwizeh (talk) 02:59, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spammed? 

message: The Crash Forensics paper referred to has no references, and seems to be a re-hash of someone else's thoughts.  I think it is wrong, and have not seen similar descriptions in refereed technical papers on hydroplaning (these are not on the web), so cannot "prove" it is wrong.  It is the usual 'the web is a rumour mill' result.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.184.87.155 (talk) 23:35, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Forensics paper is a partial summary of what appears in the legal book reference. The entirety of the latter's hydroplaning entry is available via Google book search, and more authoritative. Alexdi (talk) 00:10, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viscous Hydroplaning 

message: It is easy to see why narrower tires will hydroplane less because they have less water to cut into and displace with the same weight/force. What I don't understand is why why longer contact area (therefore larger diameter)tires will help as mentioned in the article. Water skiis are long and thin yet hydroplane easily. My thinking is that you would want to minimize the area of contact in both dimensions to create maximum pressure on the road. Can any one explain how longer/larger diameter will help with a given fixed width and weight (all else equal)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.100.204.61 (talk) 03:13, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure if this is correct, but a ski has a perfectly flat surface, helping it skim over the top of the water. A tyre is rough and the vehicle will be slowed down more by a longer tyre, which will reduce the speed quicker than a shorter tyre would, which will might make the car less prone to aquaplaning. I'm going to add a citation needed note to this line of the article. Abhi Beckert (talk) 08:50, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I might guess that a short tire has greater curvature, which implies less time for the water to clear before the contact patch flattens. The sources linked in the article may provide a better explanation. Alexdi (talk) 11:16, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longer is better? 

message: The second picture "Two vehicles aquaplaning" is misleading. The cars are going trough puddle and watter is splahing and that's all. There is no aquaplanning. But I have no better picture :(
David Valenta (talk) 08:24, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

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replies: text: Aquaplaning →  – Hydroplaning seems to be the much more common word. Immanuelle 💗 (please tag me) 09:48, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Truck is pretty common in the UK. YorkshireExpat (talk) 21:24, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
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