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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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Back in the day it was also acceptable to smoke at your desk, slap the receptionist on the ass, and sterilize people with mental disabilities.
Winter tire technology in any snow belt region is as big, if not a bigger safety advancement than ABS, traction control and airbags the effect is so dramatic.
My Jeep Liberty is a real oddball. For some bizarre reason it has no ABS which was believe it or not, optional up until 2004. Last winter was a huge eye opener on how effective snow tires are. I would roll into slick intersections, and stop perfectly fine with zero drama. Meanwhile people in brand new modern day stuff were sliding and doing the ABS panic dance in their super awesome AWD 60k lux mobiles with their low profile 19's.