Re:Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Are Back, Baby, and We Have EVs to ...
by AuryGlenz on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:44PM
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I live in Minnesota and very few people buy snow tires, and most balk at it. They don't realize the difference it makes.
I regularly drive in conditions in my damned Camaro where the only other vehicles on the road are trucks, with some of them not being on the road anymore.
Re:Rear-Wheel-Drive Cars Are Back, Baby, and We Have EVs to ...
by secabeen on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:08AM
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Interestingly, I'm finding more and more standard vehicles with tires with the M+S designation on the sidewall that makes them legally Snow Tires. I don't expect these have the same performance in the midwest snow as purpose-built snow tires, but they should qualify from a legal sense for chain restrictions and the like.
Most accidents are caused by failure to stop and failure to turn, not failure to accelerate.
> There's a reason that everyone and their brother buys an AWD vehicle and far fewer people buy snow tires.
You clearly live in a very different place than me - very few passenger vehicles are available with AWD (subarus, trucks, some SUVs). But everyone has snow tires.
> What I want you to tell me is why I should prioritize braking and steering if they're not the bottlenecks I encounter when driving in the snow
Great for you? Again, you clearly live in a place with very different conditions than I do. What about the conditions make it so that you can't accelerate, but you can turn or brake just fine?