thumb|A diagram of an aquaplaning tire thumb|Two vehicles aquaplaning through large puddles on the road's surface
thumb|A diagram of an aquaplaning tire thumb|Two vehicles aquaplaning through large puddles on the road's surface
Aquaplaning or hydroplaning by the tires of a road vehicle, aircraft or other wheeled vehicle occurs when a layer of water builds between the wheels of the vehicle and the road surface, leading to a loss of traction that prevents the vehicle from responding to control inputs. If it occurs to all wheels simultaneously, the vehicle becomes, in effect, an uncontrolled sled. Aquaplaning is a different phenomenon from when water on the surface of the roadway merely acts as a lubricant. Traction is diminished on wet pavement even when aquaplaning is not occurring.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).