When driving on a flooded street...
SLOW DOWN...to a crawl. Driving fast raises the water level at the front of your car and helps it get into your air intake, leading to stalls. Even if you are in a car with a high ground clearance, driving fast creates waves that cause other cars with less clearance to stall. Just don't be an asshole.
Posted Jul 1, 2015, 4:23 AM UTC
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Actually the proper way to do a water crossing is at a speed fast enough in order to create a bow wave in front of you to keep the water away from your engine and air intake. If you don't have the ground clearance then stay the heck off of flooded streets, I don't want to stall out behind of you because you don't have the vehicle or the knowledge to drive through high water and keep stopping in it and then inching forward like so many people were doing yesterday.