Final answer:
To regain control during a skid, turn the steering wheel in the opposite direction. When navigating an ideally banked curve at the right speed, you are pushed toward the center of the curve. Gyroscopes maintain their angular momentum direction due to rigid body rotation.
Step-by-step explanation:
To maintain or regain directional control of the vehicle, you should generally turn the steering wheel back in the opposite direction of the skid. If you are turning left and the rear of the vehicle starts to skid right, you would turn the steering wheel to the right to correct the skid.
Regarding the force exerted on you by the car seat when negotiating a curve that is ideally banked for your car's speed, you should not feel yourself being thrown to either side. The force exerted by the car seat would be directed towards the center of the curve, providing the centripetal force necessary to make the turn without sliding. When a motorcycle makes a turn by the rider pulling back slightly on the handlebar, this is due to the phenomenon known as countersteering, where initiating a slight turn in the opposite direction causes the motorcycle to lean and turn in the desired direction due to gyroscopic effects and the distribution of forces.
Gyroscopes maintain a constant direction of angular momentum even when subjected to forces and accelerations due to their properties of rigid body rotation and conservation of angular momentum, allowing them to continue pointing in the same direction in space.