Both are wrong, the science says it's all about 4 way balance, your car will handle better with 4 tires at 50% than 2x80% + 2x20% in any conditions.
Except the scenarios most reasonable people consider mixing tires is more like 4 at 20% vs 2 at 20% and 2 at 50%.
I'd take the mix of 2x 50% over 4 at 20%.
Like a bike, my understanding of the situation is that good tires in the back keeps the vehicle straighter in most scenarios. You'd lose in acceleration and ability to do better evasive maneuvers, but the vehicle is going to be more likely to stay controllably at a stand still. Putting good tires on the spinning wheels (ie: FF vehicle) is slightly different in the sense that you can do better evasive maneuvers, but stability suffers.
The average person is probably unlikely to constantly do all the effective evasive maneuvers, so it's recommended that you don't do it that way. But this is the "average" here. You have idiots with winters that crash and morons with bad all seasons that somehow avoid collision, even though they annoy everyone around them for their entire drive. There's too many factors at play.
If someone is an idiot or non-confident driver, objectively, it's recommended to stay home when the roads are like this. But what constitutes an idiot or non-confident (shouldn't have confidence) driver is a bit subjective.
I'm not telling anybody to do anything. It was a hypothetical. Do you get all weird when somebody asks if you'd rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck, too?
Duck-sized horses for me. I'm pretty sure I'd fare better and at least kick a few of them.
I'm still laughing that they forecasted this weekend to be a "polar vortex". We were preparing for the same #### we had in December. When it doesn't even hit -20C in January, that isn't a polar vortex. Its winter.
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I'm still laughing that they forecasted this weekend to be a "polar vortex". We were preparing for the same #### we had in December. When it doesn't even hit -20C in January, that isn't a polar vortex. Its winter.
It felt like a polar vortex, in my heart.
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I'm still laughing that they forecasted this weekend to be a "polar vortex". We were preparing for the same #### we had in December. When it doesn't even hit -20C in January, that isn't a polar vortex. Its winter.
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I'm not telling anybody to do anything. It was a hypothetical. Do you get all weird when somebody asks if you'd rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck, too?
Depends on whether the good horseshoes are on the front or back hooves.
^Surprisingly warm-feeling. I know it's below freezing, but it feels much warmer than that. Lots of melting going on downtown right now; maybe the sunlight working its magic.
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Had to drive up to Red Deer on Friday evening. I arrived at this scene before emergency vehicles arrived. I was one of the last vehicles to make it past as a fire truck arrived behind me.
It has not been a very windy winter but the last couple days have sucked. It was cold AF walking to work the other day and right now it's unpleasantly windy out there. Eff off wind.
