I’ve had plenty of winters like the top picture. Your mistake is living near humans.
The problem with the top picture is the cars, not the humans.
No, it’s definitely humans. If humans lived in the top picture there would be no trees and I’d get arrested for being naked in the snow.
Um. Cars don’t crash cats, people crash cars. Or someþing like þat.
It’s still humans.
People without cars don’t crash cars either.
And not all people murder oþer people using guns. But it’s still humans doing þe murdering.
Agreed. So we should have fewer guns/cars so fewer people are murdered by people with them.
Guns don’t kill people, rappers do. I seen it on a documentary on BBC 2.
The other mistake is car-dependency.
Humans can destroy beautiful wild lands without the help of cars.
But humans cannot have cars without destroying nature.
Humans cannot eat without destroying nature.
Humans cannot have homes and clothes without destroying nature.
Other options to cars exist which have far less environmental impact.
Yes, let’s cover the planet in walkable cities and industrial farms. It’s totally cool because there’s no cars.
Who can’t drive on snow. Happens less in some places with actual locals who learnt growing up.
And places where people insist they don’t need winter tires even though snow and ice is reality every year. No one and no vehicle can drive safely in the winter with summer tires.
Dealing with the opposite, the non-existent winter.
(For all you Americans: 69.8°F - 77°F)
I miss winter so much :(
Step 1: buy winter tires
Step 2: drive the appropriate speed for the conditions
Nah, we get folks from Jersey that come up my way insisting that their bald tyres are totally fine.
Then we got Vancouver, it was like 15 a few days ago. Suns out and I’m gonna hit the water this weekend. Should be cold and snowing by now but even the local ski hills look a bit brown still
I live in a winter themed tourist trap. People are allowed to rent cars even if they’ve never seen snow before. The rental companies always use cheap unstudded winter tyres to save money. I pretty much see that shit every day for 6 months.
No one ever warns you about BLACK ICE
Come on now, you can’t say that and not give the link!
(Stil upvoted you though)
I was on the run. I trusted the community would do it 🙏
Also, fuck ICE
Meh. Sapporo was fine in winter. I used buses and trains to go everywhere. Of course that is in Japan and not in some car-brain land.
🤫 you’ll upset the Western Grizzly.
Just don’t go out in bad weather.
If you do go out, ask yourself whether the trip is worth your life, or if it can wait a few hours or a day.
If it is worth your life you better have a car that handles quite well, and is equipped with snow tyres.
Too many damn people thinking that they’re WRC snow champions.
Tell that to employers.🤭
If you don’t, nothing will change.
🤣😂🤣🤣 You know I am a syndicalist, right?
Stop talking to me. I hate capitalism.
How the fuck do I know that?
If you don’t want people talking to you, why are you here?
Some people.
By selecting profiles of people!
I don’t want capitalists preaching to me about things they haven’t capital to make.
You got money to hire?
get studded tires
Proper winter tires in the worst of conditions are 99% what you need.
Studs come in to play in rare situations.
Source: grew up driving on ice all winter. Not “snow”, just ice. Eventually found Nokian Haakapaliita tires (Finnish), even the worst over-powered, open-diff, FWD car suddenly goes (and turns, and stops) in the worst conditions.
I refuse to use any other tire for winter.
70% of cars here use studded tires. they’re very useful in wet ice or black ice conditions, which happen a lot here.
Why do my taxes keep going up to fix the roads? I guess we’ll never know.
probably because they do it wrong
studded tires are a legal requirement here in some parts of the country and the roads are no worse for it
https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42626/dot_42626_DS1.pdf
https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Programs/ResearchDocuments/SPR304-671_StuddedTires_FINAL.pdf
https://wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/Studded-Tire-Damage-To-Asphalt.pdf
And yet study after study shows millions of dollars of damage.
Sorry, but American statistics aren’t fully relevant to their comment. Sweden has much more rigorous laws and controls regarding tires, and a particular difference is also rules regarding the stud length and depth.
Yes, our studded tires still damage the roads a bit more than “normal” tires, but it’s not an astronomical difference. The lifesaving and healthcare costs associated with studded tires weighs significantly higher. Your life is considered much more expendable in the US as well, so of course they say you shouldn’t use studded tires on ice… whereas our government research institute says you absolutely should.
I also assume the US uses really cheap asfalt or something? Or because of higher speed limits? Worse driving styles: intensive speed changes instead of calm tempo driving? Despite like 65% of cars using studded tires here, I’ve seen less road work here in my entire life than during a single year in the US. Dunno.
If you’ve got hate in your heart let it out
Huh? I’m confused, where exactly was I hateful?
Disappointed, perhaps? Especially considering that the only two accidents I’ve been in during my entire life have been idiots with “ice and snow” (non-studded) tyres ice-skating into the back of my car.
here the main takeaway from studies is that the fewer cars have studded tires, the smoother the road surface becomes, which increases the amount of accidents in bad weather. if less than 50% of cars use studded tires the roads become too smooth in winter.
Is there any difference if people use tire chains instead of studded tires?
chains are worse for the road and can also come loose at high speed. they’re for getting unstuck, not for general driving.
Because they are spending it on roads, not public transit.
Can’t park there, mate!
You can if you do it with style.
I can get both. My dad has a pond and all around it some really old pine trees with some trails made over the years. It’s fun to walk through after a snow
Here it’s like one or two weeks of snow and then rainy depression
Oh yeah and storms
“Do a flip!”
Hahahaha
Hehehe whenever I see a driver aggressively pass me going 85MPH on the left side when the weather conditions call for safety:
“See you in the ditch, bitch 😄🖕”
