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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
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Also, last winter was an aberration, the average winter in Calgary only gives about 10 days at most that you would benefit from using winter tires. Sure, winter tires may be "better" even when the road is dry, but I assume by better, they mean 0.01% better. All seasons will never slip on dry pavement, no matter what the temperature is , except perhaps in the extremest of extremes. Again, Calgary doesn't get those extreme temperatures for extended periods of time where it might make a difference.
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Shyte happens, even during those "10 days". It only takes one incident for winter tires to pay off. If people want to gamble with all-seasons, go right ahead. Truthfully, you'll come out on top
most of the time, so all the power to you.
But the same can be said for driving without a seat belt. You could likely do it most of the time without consequence. But you wear it for the rare time it stops you from going head first through the windshield, and you never know when that time might be.
Winter tires are optional for many people only because the law says so. Seat belts were the same way. Had they never been mandated, do you think that by some miracle we'd all be wearing them anyways? Of course not. Some would out of common sense and others would continue not to because it's not mandatory. Really, that's the only leg that non winter tire users have to stand on, because as you've admitted yourself, winter > all-seasons during winter weather, which we do get in case some of you forgot.