Winter Tires

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

People drive so slow in this City with the tiniest little bit of precipitation that has a miniscule chance of making the roads slippery, that I never get to drive at a speed where winter tires would be required. How many days out of the whole year are the main roads too slippery to drive the speed limit? At the very most 5-10. On non-major roads that are slippery, I drive much slower, and slow down even more at critical points.

I'm not sure what speed and the effectiveness of winter tires have to do with each other. Winter tires are better at gripping snow/ice at all speeds, not just high speeds.

[Fobby]

I still can't understand why some people cannot get the fact that WINTER tires DOES NOT EQUAL SNOW tires.

[ken0042]

^^ Talk to the CBC then. In their article the use the two terms interchangeably.