Audi had a car that would drift up Pike's Peak years ago. http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/16/stanford-audi-tts-thunder... Ford is making headway on snow and rain http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3399315/The-d... Last I checked, this was mostly a sensor problem. The dynamics of driving in slippery conditions is pretty well-studied.