The right way to hump

[Mudball]

We have a decent size speed breaker/hump on the drive out of the course. Driving out this morning, saw a car trying to go sideways over it...one wheel at a time. Back in the days i remember being told that the best way was to go slow and approach it at an angle rather than slow and forward. I cant remember the last time i tried that. Is there a right way to get over a hump?

 

[Foxholer]

...Is there a right way to get over a hump?

Copious quantity of alcohol normally does it for me!
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[Slab]

The 'sideways' method you mention is for golf carts, fork-lift trucks and ice-cream vans, it won't work for a regular car

There is a gov mandated method but that's a bit political so best not to mention it (suffice to say imagine you're driving a train)

My own advice would be straight across going at half the speed limit

 

[Hacker Khan]

I think this is the official way to hump

 

[User62651]

Straight and slowly I think, angled is more for small boats crossing large ship wakes.
People putting them in on occasion forget trailers/caravans with their lowish jockey wheels, should be a gap in the middle of a speed bump/hump ideally.

 

[jim8flog]

Carefully.

 

[USER1999]

my BMW is silly low, and grounds on most humps. It does seem to cope better going over diagonally, but even then, only at way less than walking pace.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Bit of a rev and plough through, then again when there are some lawnmowers more powerful than your car these can be a challenge.

 

[Imurg]

We teach to keep the normal road position and if you have to take an edge then you slow down sufficiently to take the edge without leaving half the car behind.
We have copious numbers of speed bumps...some small, some wide, some just like mountains and some, literally, with corners on them....get those wrong and it hurts!