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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Holy smokes people. How old are you? Do you have any idea what people drove through winters in the 60's, 70's, and 80's with? Cars with lap belts, no traction control, terrible rubber/tread compounds (the best tire in the 80's wouldn't even compare to today's worst all season tire) and while new technologies are saving lives people are getting into just as many accidents and that's because drivers today are worse. You can have the best setup available and if you are going to drive like an idiot either too fast for the conditions or obsessed with your text messages you are still going to get into an accident. I believe since going mandatory in Quebec collisions have dropped but by less than 10% which means tires don't overcome poor drivers.
The bottom line is that people are worse at driving than they ever have due to all the distractions brought along with technology and the people endangering others on the roads are the ones that are terrible drivers not the ones with all season tires.
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Look, at the end of the day, you and I both know the majority of people who don't get winter tires are because they are cheap asses, simple as that. They can afford it if they choose to, but they choose not to because they think their driving skills can compensate for tires that aren't proper for winter. They rather spend their money on other things they find more important. My argument is that winter tires should be high up there on your list of what's important to spend money on.
It just grinds my gears that these are the people who unnecessarily snarl up traffic in the winter, and are the ones who have to brake needlessly far away because their all season tires can't stop like winter tires do. It just adds to traffic jams. Plus, it makes me paranoid at intersections, thinking some doofus is going slide through an icy intersection becuase their all seasons suck.