@@AlexV-pf3io I mean we have that in America too, the lane thing isn't as prevalent but literally everywhere there are signs hanging above the highways. Also not sure what the sign part has to do with what the OP said. He's talking about the roads being so slick with ice that you can't stop at the stop sign because you have no braking power, so you just coast through the intersection.
The smart guy in the Mercedes 4-Matic is the best - “I think I’ll go ahead and hit EVERY vehicle!” - even in an SUV BUILT for this! Thank you for providing such beautiful video!
0:00 smh. They need to bring a couple bags of sand or salt with them for these recoveries. You're not going to pull a Prius out of a ditch, yet alone a semi if you don't have any traction. I guess some people have to learn physics the hard way.
@Oggiwara1 4x4 will do the trick but it still can't compare to Subaru AWD systems where it sends power to the wheels that actually have the most grip. And if you add mechanical Limited slip differentials to the system it becomes the best AWD system. But only cars like the Subaru WRX STI, Toyota GR Corolla and the Mitsubishi Ralliart have front and rear LSDs.
Miss my departed Foresters AKA Ole ‘98 and 2K. Pretty hard to get them stuck on studded Nokia Hakkapillettas. Been a couple seasons since they were necessary here. Pirelli all terrains the other 3 seasons.
Driving on ice is the ultimate reminder that no matter the vehicle, physics always wins. Stay safe out there, and remember-it’s not about how many wheels you have, but how carefully you use them. Drive smart!
Also, if you live in a place that gets snow and ice, get winter tires. Winter tires are far more performant on icy conditions than summer or all season tires.
@@TTVToxic-yu5ov The coefficient of friction on the road is also very important. Braking from 40 mph to 0 on snow or ice with winter tires is not comparable than doing the same thing with summer or all season tires And no, all season tires with "mud and snow" written on it isn't an actual set of winter tires.
I'm from Norway so i got my licence on snow on ice a december. 6 months of ice and snow were i live, think i was of the road 15-20 times the first year, but you learn the physics by trial and error. Now i'm 44 and still can't help myself from playing, drifting on the road. Hehe :)
It amazes me how so many people who live in snow and ice country don't know how to drive on snow and ice. 1. SLOW DOWN! 2. If you start sliding, do not stand on the brakes. As seen in this video, there are many cars with brake lights on and wheels locked up. If the wheels are allowed to roll they at least stand a chance of regaining traction. 3. EASY on the accelerator when trying to get rolling again. Spinning the tires faster and faster does not provide motion--just the opposite.
When the whole road is ice good luck with all you think you know, the best thing is to stay home, or atleast have salt or kitty litter, plus weight in your truck or truck bed, decent tires front and back, deflate tires, have chains ⛓️ etc.. but in this video 📹 👀 you're lucky to escape death or injuries
@NightCrawler810 Agreed, best to stay off the road, but often it's a difficult call. Weather can change; highway reports can be wrong or incomplete; and in some parts of the country roads are covered with snowpack/ice for months at a time. So unless you're going to stay home most of the winter you need good technology and driving skills. I was an over the road trucker for many years, hauling hazmat tankers. Drove about a million miles across the entire US and Canada.
Keeping momentum up can be more useful than 'going slowly' As soon as you stop or have to stop due to others alreayd stuck, getting moving again can be simply impossible especially in an HGV
Bridge decks will always be more slippery than the road. Salt/Sanding trucks are not allowed to salt the decks of a bridge. According to Engineers who are WAY smarter than the rest of us say It will shorten the life of the bridge. If you don't believe me watch every vehicle gets traction the second they clear the bridge deck. It's dumb
@@EricNielsen187 And, ya know, that bridges loose heat from above AND below. And that bridges have significantly less mass to hold heat than layers of concrete and dirt. But no, it's those pesky engineers that give a lifespan for a structure which agencies ignore left and right. I wish we listened to them, but we don't.
@@Int_resting Ummm, I was sarcastically joking about engineers. The restriction is done for a reason. It's ability to retain heat has nothing to do with the video
@@joeyjamison5772 Nah Not beer, More like "Hold my Double Espresso, Caramel, Minty, Macchiato, latte, whipped, cinnamon, extra frothy light roast frappe" lol
@ on ice? I doubt it. The average driver, myself included, is not a millionaire or weekend racer with access to paddle shifters or use them proficiently.
I've done what they were doing many times in 40+ years of driving. I learned how to left foot brake in a FWD, and how to powerslide an AWD Subaru. Fun times, very educational, and it really prepared me for winter driving.
Dave , your wisdom is wasted on most . They think the show must go on . Sometimes ya gotta just park it and wait . Or , you will park it where you don't want to , sometimes in pieces .
Cuz someone has to repair the broken pipeline and improve other infrastructure so that lazy dog like you could stay home and live in your pretend world that you think magically repair itself.
I can give one piece of advice after living in an icy place for 30 years. Get your foot off the brake once you start sliding or spinning. Your wheels have to be in motion in order to finally grip the pavement. Tap them if you must, but never keep your foot on the pedal as you will continue to slide.
@@canadianwhitewolf3688 I *don't* live in ice country (we get some in Winter but it usually just lasts a few days) but am curious: do you own two sets of wheels and tires then swap them twice per year? I read another Canadian say it's *required* by law for people who live in Quebec to have snow tires in Winter.
When you’re in blowing light snow, and you can’t hear your tires on the road….. it’s black ice time. Gentle on the foot feed and barely on the brakes. 😊
Want a simple solution to driving when the roads are hazardous? Stay home, keep your vehicle in the garage, and only go out once the roads are clear. It's not worth risking getting into an accident, getting stuck or stranded, or maybe losing your life.
ya we can't stay home for 6 months out of the year in New Hampshire. we sometimes get multiple storms in a week or storms that last 2 or 3 days. the difference is we know how to purchase snow tires and know not to slam on the brakes when going into a skid.
I don't go anywhere if I know it's going to be super cold and snow. But the other day I went to work no snow then when I left there was four inches of snow some of us have no choice but to have to drive in it. Driving in it was scary because there was like 8 accidents I passed and what's makes it scary is the semis drive really fast in the snow and was passing us in cars SMH.
not brushing snow off your car must be a special technique to weigh down your car for extra traction and help you concentrate since you only have the front window to look out
That opening part where the police vehicle is trying to pull the semi is ridiculous! You have to put salt on the road and melt that ice before there's any point to trying to pull anything out of the ditch.
Those guys doing doughnuts at the end were obviously rookies. I could go 60 down an icy highway sideways back and forth side to side and then spin a 360 and come out straight again on worn out tires with the cords showing. Ahhh the good old days. Terry
Nothing like watching a pickup with 4x4 printed on the back and only seeing the back wheels spinning like mad and not getting any where on an up hill 🙄
Many of these videos are shot from drones. Good footage. The best way to learn how to drive on ice or snow is to go to a snow covered parking lot and see how a car handles. Try your best to break traction and learn from how the car reacts. Just watch for the curbs and light poles.
The only negative point of a sports car is the low ground clearance but in all of the videos we saw here, there isn't sufficient snow for ground clearance to be a problem We saw many SUVs and pickup trucks crashing in the video... The problems I saw in this video are 1) People driving too quickly 2) People who don't have actual homologated winter tires
*I missed my flight due to unexpected traffic. Frustrated, I later learned that the plane had encountered engine failure mid-air. My frustration quickly turned to relief, knowing I had narrowly avoided disaster.* 💕💕
Do you have winter tires? Have you ever heard of such a thing? Maybe you should sprinkle salt in certain places, like the bridge, to prevent black ice.
Salt isn't the answer for all these situations. At first, temperatures should not be too low. At least, here in The Netherlands, where situations as in the video are rather rare but do happen once in a while, wet-brine is used (wetting it makes it stick way better to the road surface and already-present snow). This only works to about -8 degrees Celsius. Lower will make it useless as it freezes up just as good as normal water. Than there is wind: if the winds are up (and you don't need that much) it can easily blow salt away from the places where you want it. The third part is that it needs to be driven over to push it into already fallen snow for it to work good. In 2021, a blizzard hit The Netherlands (and blizzards are very rare here) during the night. Wet-brine was sprayed everywhere in my city in advance, but due to the high winds (force 8 and 9) most of it was blown away. The (short-lived) curfew that was in place at the time due to covid didn't help, but conditions were so bad that I doubt many more drivers would have gone out of their home otherwise. The result was that for a few days, many roads, especially those in residential areas, where covered in snow and ice, the latter by the few vehicles that did squash it into ice.
@@weeardguy I live in Canada and salt works even when it's -30 degrees. The negative points of salt is that it's expensive and bad for lakes and rivers...
As for the idjit/dipshyte at 2:05. ONCE the backward slip occurs, take the foot OFF the gas, and slowly pull the handbrake (it's not an emergency brake at all, but a manual brake for parking and OR to aide in icy conditions, where PULLING IT ON SLOWLY allows you to just let it grab BOTH rear wheels enough as to "stop" the differential working, thus "locking" both back wheels into a held-back stiffer dual pulling action, which means that the vehicle acts as if there IS NO DIFF driving like a stock car at the drag races.. You get a much more even "slow speed crawl action, allowing you to KEEP your foot off the front brakes to maintain steering, while ensuring you don't get that run-away diff spinning single rear wheel effect, which steals ALL f your forwards momentum. But then it's obvious that those idiots in that location "where normally it snows there" (local people), they haven't learnt from last year, or the year before or the many years before those, and never will learn..
i hope the Camaro owner sees this and sees my comment. Street tires in Snow? Were you born yesterday? Come on guys you live in these regions and you havent figured things out yet? If you see ice on your vehicle , you should also see chains. Period. maybe i need to move out there and start a class on cold weather driving. However I am a nice guy so here are some tips. First, speed is not key in snow, drop it to low or to 1, and gently ease on the gas, let the torque free you, speed will only bury you. Second, go to home depot or any place sells bags of sand or cat liter both do amazing but my preference is cat liter because it does have rock and sand great for traction whereas plain sand once in the groove of the tires will shoot out like mud. third invest in a shovel. however never never never leave the house with just a shovel remember you still need traction. lastly and I love it I just recently discovered it but traction boards, inexpensive, no digging or anything required. just be certain you know if its front wheel or rear wheel drive, doesnt help if the tires still spin .
Escambia Bay was my favorite place to fish for Orange Mouth with live shrimp on a weighted bobber. My buddy and I played hooky from work many a time when the speckled trout were running at the FL/AL bridge. A gunny sack of oysters for $8 at the Oyster Bar on Navy Way was incredible.
As for all the rest - SPEED is the # 1 enemy of any careless driver, as a careful driver ALWAYS slows down in winter's "below freezing" (black-ice) conditions..
That’s what I always loved about driving in the south when I worked there for a while. People did not understand ice at all. Be a bridge coated with sheets of ice and there would always be some idiot behind me leaning on his horn. You think the license plate from somewhere cold would clue them in to why I’m not doing 75.
I use to have to get out and rescue people in these kind of conditions. Now I just watch YT videos and remember when! It's always 72 degrees where I'm at in this type of weather. Home with the heater on!🤣
When it’s sheer ice you have to have studs or chains/cables to get around decent. If there’s some snow if you have tires with tread you can get in the snow and use your head you can get around. If you don’t have any tread you’re screwed!! Most important thing for winter driving is tires that have decent tread. Really makes a difference when you want to steer,stop or get going again!🙄
It's more than tread, it's tread pattern and tread compound. Hard summer or all-season tires designed to last 60,000 miles won't grip ice and snow. Narrow, studless snow tires are best for all winter and ice conditions.
@@danielhartin7680 They are only impossible to drive on if you don't have winter tires. Where I live in Canada winter tires are mandatory and life never stops. No matter if there's freezing rain or a heavy blizzard you'll still see everyone going to work as usual The problem in this video is that people are driving too fast and don't have winter tires
Diesel city busses really do the best in greasy snow, all the weight is down low and the whole drive train is designed for putting torque where it matters, our roommate was a bus driver and we would go with him for fun in Ontario blizzards, Toronto is a hoot in a blizzard with a bus, we'd stop at wendy's for burgers lol.
Après 30 ans dans le grand froid, j'ai une petite astuce pour vous : quand vous commencez à glisser ou à tourner, retirez votre pied du frein ! Vos roues doivent tourner pour trouver de l'adhérence. Oui, ça peut être tentant de les caresser un peu, mais ne les étouffez pas, sinon vous continuerez à faire la danse du patinage artistique sur la route ! 😆❄🚗
Welcome to winter driving! Where lanes are nonexistent and stop signs are optional. 😂❄️
Тhis is America. In Europe lanes and bunch of signs are above a road. Seems America will never learn
@@AlexV-pf3io I mean we have that in America too, the lane thing isn't as prevalent but literally everywhere there are signs hanging above the highways. Also not sure what the sign part has to do with what the OP said. He's talking about the roads being so slick with ice that you can't stop at the stop sign because you have no braking power, so you just coast through the intersection.
@@AlexV-pf3io Tell me what we have to learn.🤷♀️
You described everyday Houston
@@AlexV-pf3io Alex, please explain why I see a traffic circle in England, there are signs all painted on the road surface ?
The smart guy in the Mercedes 4-Matic is the best - “I think I’ll go ahead and hit EVERY vehicle!” - even in an SUV BUILT for this!
Thank you for providing such beautiful video!
Hope he got arrested
0:00 smh. They need to bring a couple bags of sand or salt with them for these recoveries. You're not going to pull a Prius out of a ditch, yet alone a semi if you don't have any traction. I guess some people have to learn physics the hard way.
They're on the clock, making money.
Just slow down
Not making any money in the ditch
@@RJYOUNG396 they need to slow down & use the right tyres
Love the Subaru driving out of the deep snow without a problem in the middle of this mess.
There was another Subaru WRX at 8:29 complete with turbo noises charging up the road.
4x4 and proper winter tires does the trick...
@Oggiwara1 4x4 will do the trick but it still can't compare to Subaru AWD systems where it sends power to the wheels that actually have the most grip. And if you add mechanical Limited slip differentials to the system it becomes the best AWD system. But only cars like the Subaru WRX STI, Toyota GR Corolla and the Mitsubishi Ralliart have front and rear LSDs.
I drive Subaru Forester and never have any problem on Jimmy Carter road today
Miss my departed Foresters AKA Ole ‘98 and 2K. Pretty hard to get them stuck on studded Nokia Hakkapillettas. Been a couple seasons since they were necessary here. Pirelli all terrains the other 3 seasons.
Driving on ice is the ultimate reminder that no matter the vehicle, physics always wins. Stay safe out there, and remember-it’s not about how many wheels you have, but how carefully you use them. Drive smart!
Also, if you live in a place that gets snow and ice, get winter tires.
Winter tires are far more performant on icy conditions than summer or all season tires.
Winter tires, yes, but physics over everything. Gravity always wins.
@@TTVToxic-yu5ov The coefficient of friction on the road is also very important.
Braking from 40 mph to 0 on snow or ice with winter tires is not comparable than doing the same thing with summer or all season tires
And no, all season tires with "mud and snow" written on it isn't an actual set of winter tires.
@@PatG-xd8qn agree 100% on winter tires. They literally save lives
I'm from Norway so i got my licence on snow on ice a december. 6 months of ice and snow were i live, think i was of the road 15-20 times the first year, but you learn the physics by trial and error. Now i'm 44 and still can't help myself from playing, drifting on the road. Hehe :)
I always feel so glad that I live in Western Australia when I watch these vids.
Your kangaroos cracking a front grill in a collision can get expensive too.
A. Western Australia is full of bushfire so everyone is devastated god is not happy from us anymore
And having 90% of the most venomous critters in the world.
And Shame on you
@arufai مش انا يا احمد اللي قلت ان انا عايش في غرب استراليا انا مش عايش في استراليا اصلا انت بتقول لي شيمو نيو ليه
I like the snow Drift Cars , this has some Vibes
😆😅🤣 @obsidianwing You're rude... so anyways please post more!!! (Dec 2/24)
It amazes me how so many people who live in snow and ice country don't know how to drive on snow and ice.
1. SLOW DOWN!
2. If you start sliding, do not stand on the brakes. As seen in this video, there are many cars with brake lights on and wheels locked up. If the wheels are allowed to roll they at least stand a chance of regaining traction.
3. EASY on the accelerator when trying to get rolling again. Spinning the tires faster and faster does not provide motion--just the opposite.
Locking up the brakes, turns the wheels into a pair of skis ! No steering - no stopping power.
Yep. and don't forget when you start to slid turn the car in the same direction as the rear is going.
When the whole road is ice good luck with all you think you know, the best thing is to stay home, or atleast have salt or kitty litter, plus weight in your truck or truck bed, decent tires front and back, deflate tires, have chains ⛓️ etc.. but in this video 📹 👀 you're lucky to escape death or injuries
@NightCrawler810 Agreed, best to stay off the road, but often it's a difficult call. Weather can change; highway reports can be wrong or incomplete; and in some parts of the country roads are covered with snowpack/ice for months at a time. So unless you're going to stay home most of the winter you need good technology and driving skills.
I was an over the road trucker for many years, hauling hazmat tankers. Drove about a million miles across the entire US and Canada.
Keeping momentum up can be more useful than 'going slowly'
As soon as you stop or have to stop due to others alreayd stuck, getting moving again can be simply impossible especially in an HGV
Ahh the annual meeting of the summer tire club
A classic in every country 😂
And the 2 wheel drive club.
And almost bald tires
BUT
BUT
I have all wheel drive 😂
Small brains big crashes
Lmao
Любимая погода! Просто обожаю, когда так скользко. С 1979 года за рулем и проблем никогда не было. Жду когда в Москве будет так же)))
Главное переобуться
@@Ильнур-ы1е And getting to your destination rather then going anywhere at speed of course
russians never buy snow tires that's why they crash so much
You have an awesome outlook on life! I feel the same way
I am so glad I just retired comfortably at 59 and will never have to drive in this weather again! Ha ha! I will stay home on bad days! 🤗
Signs everywhere: "bridges may be icy." That one section of bridge that's in like half of these clips: "hold my beer."
Bridge decks will always be more slippery than the road. Salt/Sanding trucks are not allowed to salt the decks of a bridge. According to Engineers who are WAY smarter than the rest of us say It will shorten the life of the bridge. If you don't believe me watch every vehicle gets traction the second they clear the bridge deck. It's dumb
@@EricNielsen187 And, ya know, that bridges loose heat from above AND below. And that bridges have significantly less mass to hold heat than layers of concrete and dirt.
But no, it's those pesky engineers that give a lifespan for a structure which agencies ignore left and right. I wish we listened to them, but we don't.
The problem is "Hold my beer" may be literal for some of them!
@@Int_resting Ummm, I was sarcastically joking about engineers. The restriction is done for a reason. It's ability to retain heat has nothing to do with the video
@@joeyjamison5772 Nah Not beer, More like "Hold my Double Espresso, Caramel, Minty, Macchiato, latte, whipped, cinnamon, extra frothy light roast frappe" lol
The problem is the 4x4 / AWD vehicles have the same stopping power on ice as a regular vehicle: None.
Not when done correctly. Even a CVT can keep the wheels connected to the engine if you use "paddle shifting".
@ on ice? I doubt it. The average driver, myself included, is not a millionaire or weekend racer with access to paddle shifters or use them proficiently.
@Limewire1984 paddle shifting is in quotes because a cvt doesn't necessarily use paddles. Slap stick shifting works the same in the drive train.
The problem is no winter tires....
@@kaerscarface bingo
@2:26 - it ain't Old Boy's first rodeo in that S-10
Thank you for Posting this as a reminder of how much I hate Winter!
I love Winter🇷🇺
Loved seeing the vehicles at play near the end. Learning to handle a slide in an empty lot or just out having fun shouldn't be illegal.
My kids were taught to drive in the snow & ice in a big, empty supermarket parking lot. Practice was a safe yet exciting experience.
I've done what they were doing many times in 40+ years of driving. I learned how to left foot brake in a FWD, and how to powerslide an AWD Subaru. Fun times, very educational, and it really prepared me for winter driving.
Some people just don't know when to stay home
but by the same token, you dont get the experience you need to learn when sitting at home
Dave , your wisdom is wasted on most . They think the show must go on . Sometimes ya gotta just park it and wait . Or , you will park it where you don't want to , sometimes in pieces .
I mean people still have to go to work, but yeah the people headed to the grocery store or on some unimportant errand are pretty stupid.
yet it's simple... it's when there's ice on the road and you don't have studded tires...😁😉
Cuz someone has to repair the broken pipeline and improve other infrastructure so that lazy dog like you could stay home and live in your pretend world that you think magically repair itself.
Boy I'm glad I now live in Florida ! I put up with this ship for 60 years ! 45 years as a truck driver in New England !
Same here but our snow storm of the century was a stark reminder that most folks should stay home when the road conditions are bad.
Educational to see the horror of vehicles on icy roads. Thank you for your video coverage.
I can give one piece of advice after living in an icy place for 30 years. Get your foot off the brake once you start sliding or spinning. Your wheels have to be in motion in order to finally grip the pavement. Tap them if you must, but never keep your foot on the pedal as you will continue to slide.
I've been in the oh-BLEEP mode, and if there is one thing I truly hate is the pulsing/buzzing of anti-lock brakes!
And use winter tire.
@@canadianwhitewolf3688 for sure! I used siped tires and they worked great.
yeah that's a tactic for people with snow tires on ice. but with summers it doesnt matter what you do, they're not going to get any traction ever
@@canadianwhitewolf3688 I *don't* live in ice country (we get some in Winter but it usually just lasts a few days) but am curious: do you own two sets of wheels and tires then swap them twice per year? I read another Canadian say it's *required* by law for people who live in Quebec to have snow tires in Winter.
Thank you for sharing.
You are a fantastic video maker. All the best.
When you’re in blowing light snow, and you can’t hear your tires on the road….. it’s black ice time. Gentle on the foot feed and barely on the brakes. 😊
Great footage, thank you!
I love the bridge scenes…
That’s was some quality footage!
02:25 Dodge Challenger : Wheels spinning
02:27 Ford Pick up : Drifting like a boss
2:27 = Chevy S10
Subaru Symmetrical AWD for the win 9:21 Made it look easy.
Another Subaru playing around at 8:29
Love the black ice shots,, that stuff will sneak up on ya quick!!!
ATV’s for the win 🏆 thanks for making me laugh after a long day Brandon.
Want a simple solution to driving when the roads are hazardous? Stay home, keep your vehicle in the garage, and only go out once the roads are clear. It's not worth risking getting into an accident, getting stuck or stranded, or maybe losing your life.
ya we can't stay home for 6 months out of the year in New Hampshire. we sometimes get multiple storms in a week or storms that last 2 or 3 days. the difference is we know how to purchase snow tires and know not to slam on the brakes when going into a skid.
stay down south
@@makeitpay8241 The thing is that when they get ice or snow the drivers get even worst😂
I don't go anywhere if I know it's going to be super cold and snow. But the other day I went to work no snow then when I left there was four inches of snow some of us have no choice but to have to drive in it. Driving in it was scary because there was like 8 accidents I passed and what's makes it scary is the semis drive really fast in the snow and was passing us in cars SMH.
Thank you for collecting good clips
not brushing snow off your car must be a special technique to weigh down your car for extra traction and help you concentrate since you only have the front window to look out
That opening part where the police vehicle is trying to pull the semi is ridiculous! You have to put salt on the road and melt that ice before there's any point to trying to pull anything out of the ditch.
Duhhhh!!!
Hasn't anyone heard the news??
Stay the bleep HOME ??
A well put together video
Motorcycle in the snow... What a great idea!!
A. Amazing amazing video you are recording thank you for the good job you are doing a very very difficult work in a bad weather
lol i love director saying stay over there!!
Those guys doing doughnuts at the end were obviously rookies. I could go 60 down an icy highway sideways back and forth side to side and then spin a 360 and come out straight again on worn out tires with the cords showing. Ahhh the good old days.
Terry
Thanks Brandon - Happy Turkey Day to you and your family. 🦃
Man, do I love my snow tires.
Great camera work!
DON'T HIT THE BRAKES IN A SKID!
Oh wow, we get to play with the PD Bearcat....um no studs or chains, brilliant.
*Winter roads: where even the best drivers get humbled.*
Snow tires are good on ice, but studs are better.
the guy on the motorcycle..... classic
Driving on ice is the ultimate reminder that no matter the vehicle, physics always win
Which shows that adapting a tire or adapting driving in the event of a change in the weather is always a good idea.
Studded snow tires 💪🏽
Not even a Dodge Challenger could match ice two-wheel drive😅
Amazing
great video
Nothing like watching a pickup with 4x4 printed on the back and only seeing the back wheels spinning like mad and not getting any where on an up hill 🙄
We don't see the RPM of the left front wheel. But no winter tyres for shure.
Do the Pearl Police really need that military grade assault vehicle?
The funny one the guy with bike 🏍 🤣 😂 😆
felt this in my soul. got caught in a freak storm once. perfect weather, going home hit an area with 3 inches of wet snow. absolute strugglefest
Many of these videos are shot from drones. Good footage. The best way to learn how to drive on ice or snow is to go to a snow covered parking lot and see how a car handles. Try your best to break traction and learn from how the car reacts. Just watch for the curbs and light poles.
You are right, train and prepare for bad situations.
This is supper images!
If You can’t afford winter tires , stay home.
Winter tires don't work on ice
Them sports cars gots to go in the garage 🤦🏽♂️
The only negative point of a sports car is the low ground clearance but in all of the videos we saw here, there isn't sufficient snow for ground clearance to be a problem
We saw many SUVs and pickup trucks crashing in the video...
The problems I saw in this video are
1) People driving too quickly
2) People who don't have actual homologated winter tires
The police should not be using Military vehicles. At this point they are just the standing army our forefathers warned us about.
You're gonna need a bigger boat, I meant towtruck !!
*I missed my flight due to unexpected traffic. Frustrated, I later learned that the plane had encountered engine failure mid-air. My frustration quickly turned to relief, knowing I had narrowly avoided disaster.* 💕💕
You do know right that most modern jets are well able to fly with an engine less?
Losing an engine on a modern jet airliner is not necessarily a "disaster" !
Va,takih sluceaiah,Avariiku vkliuceaite,preduprediv ciujih voditelei!
1:06 skilled driver with the staggered braking. This technique is important on cars especially without ABS
It's nice living in Wisconsin this year 😊
Do you have winter tires? Have you ever heard of such a thing? Maybe you should sprinkle salt in certain places, like the bridge, to prevent black ice.
Salt isn't the answer for all these situations. At first, temperatures should not be too low. At least, here in The Netherlands, where situations as in the video are rather rare but do happen once in a while, wet-brine is used (wetting it makes it stick way better to the road surface and already-present snow). This only works to about -8 degrees Celsius. Lower will make it useless as it freezes up just as good as normal water. Than there is wind: if the winds are up (and you don't need that much) it can easily blow salt away from the places where you want it.
The third part is that it needs to be driven over to push it into already fallen snow for it to work good.
In 2021, a blizzard hit The Netherlands (and blizzards are very rare here) during the night. Wet-brine was sprayed everywhere in my city in advance, but due to the high winds (force 8 and 9) most of it was blown away. The (short-lived) curfew that was in place at the time due to covid didn't help, but conditions were so bad that I doubt many more drivers would have gone out of their home otherwise. The result was that for a few days, many roads, especially those in residential areas, where covered in snow and ice, the latter by the few vehicles that did squash it into ice.
@@weeardguy I live in Canada and salt works even when it's -30 degrees.
The negative points of salt is that it's expensive and bad for lakes and rivers...
As for the idjit/dipshyte at 2:05.
ONCE the backward slip occurs, take the foot OFF the gas, and slowly pull the handbrake (it's not an emergency brake at all, but a manual brake for parking and OR to aide in icy conditions, where PULLING IT ON SLOWLY allows you to just let it grab BOTH rear wheels enough as to "stop" the differential working, thus "locking" both back wheels into a held-back stiffer dual pulling action, which means that the vehicle acts as if there IS NO DIFF driving like a stock car at the drag races..
You get a much more even "slow speed crawl action, allowing you to KEEP your foot off the front brakes to maintain steering, while ensuring you don't get that run-away diff spinning single rear wheel effect, which steals ALL f your forwards momentum.
But then it's obvious that those idiots in that location "where normally it snows there" (local people), they haven't learnt from last year, or the year before or the many years before those, and never will learn..
I have confidence in my own winter driving skills. It's the other fools who think they can drive on ice and snow that I'm most scared of !!!
i hope the Camaro owner sees this and sees my comment. Street tires in Snow? Were you born yesterday? Come on guys you live in these regions and you havent figured things out yet? If you see ice on your vehicle , you should also see chains. Period. maybe i need to move out there and start a class on cold weather driving. However I am a nice guy so here are some tips. First, speed is not key in snow, drop it to low or to 1, and gently ease on the gas, let the torque free you, speed will only bury you. Second, go to home depot or any place sells bags of sand or cat liter both do amazing but my preference is cat liter because it does have rock and sand great for traction whereas plain sand once in the groove of the tires will shoot out like mud. third invest in a shovel. however never never never leave the house with just a shovel remember you still need traction. lastly and I love it I just recently discovered it but traction boards, inexpensive, no digging or anything required. just be certain you know if its front wheel or rear wheel drive, doesnt help if the tires still spin .
Escambia Bay was my favorite place to fish for Orange Mouth with live shrimp on a weighted bobber. My buddy and I played hooky from work many a time when the speckled trout were running at the FL/AL bridge.
A gunny sack of oysters for $8 at the Oyster Bar on Navy Way was incredible.
If that guy had 4 American flags on his truck, his horsepower would've quadrupled. Twelve minutes of laughs...thanks!
As for all the rest - SPEED is the # 1 enemy of any careless driver, as a careful driver ALWAYS slows down in winter's "below freezing" (black-ice) conditions..
That’s what I always loved about driving in the south when I worked there for a while. People did not understand ice at all. Be a bridge coated with sheets of ice and there would always be some idiot behind me leaning on his horn. You think the license plate from somewhere cold would clue them in to why I’m not doing 75.
Why are people driving sports cars on icy roads? You don’t drive those cars in nasty weather.
Because they are CooL
@@knittingmum3657 too cool to stay home
I saw them do it in a James Bond film once, that didn’t end well either!
Maybe it snowed unexpectedly where they live and they were not able to leave earlier to beat the storm.
@@snowrocket Not, they just wanted to be CooL 😎
At the end are people playing in parking lots. Yes it's fun plus a bonus of how to control your car in bad conditions
I use to have to get out and rescue people in these kind of conditions. Now I just watch YT videos and remember when! It's always 72 degrees where I'm at in this type of weather. Home with the heater on!🤣
I'm amazed by the fact that Pearl PD has a whole JLTV, that's crazy.
We are waiting for you in Georgia ))))
I bet the days when bumpers were made for bumping were pretty good!
These are some of my biggest fears as a trucker because if that happens in front of me there’s not much I can do
😄 THOSE SPINS AND DRIFINGS WERE COOL AT THE END- THANKS FOR THAT!! BE CAREFUL OUT THERE AND HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING BRANDON!👍🏼
Отличная подборка!
When it’s sheer ice you have to have studs or chains/cables to get around decent. If there’s some snow if you have tires with tread you can get in the snow and use your head you can get around. If you don’t have any tread you’re screwed!! Most important thing for winter driving is tires that have decent tread. Really makes a difference when you want to steer,stop or get going again!🙄
It's more than tread, it's tread pattern and tread compound. Hard summer or all-season tires designed to last 60,000 miles won't grip ice and snow. Narrow, studless snow tires are best for all winter and ice conditions.
Look like they have fun driving on ice
Imagine being these people just trying to go on about their day and looking up to see some drone flying around recording them lol
STX just out there having fun
Alot of cars don't have good tires... but some of those conditions are rly bad
haha nice ending
I grew up in rural New England, today my Sweet asked me if I ever missed the snow........
-Nate
That's a stay home kind of day for me. Nah, I'd be home all week.
Remember, weather never causes any accidents, but driving too fast for conditions always do.
Some of the conditions here are impossible to drive in, no matter how slow you're going.
@@danielhartin7680 They are only impossible to drive on if you don't have winter tires.
Where I live in Canada winter tires are mandatory and life never stops. No matter if there's freezing rain or a heavy blizzard you'll still see everyone going to work as usual
The problem in this video is that people are driving too fast and don't have winter tires
Diesel city busses really do the best in greasy snow, all the weight is down low and the whole drive train is designed for putting torque where it matters, our roommate was a bus driver and we would go with him for fun in Ontario blizzards, Toronto is a hoot in a blizzard with a bus, we'd stop at wendy's for burgers lol.
Bridges are treacherous in this weather
What is it about "bridge freezes before road surface" that some folks don''t seem to get? Great video.
2:25 this guy surely knows what he's doing
The winter, snow extreme is a mostly problem.
Good thing there is no winter tire requirement in the USA. Even a 4X4 drive doesn't help with summer tires.
I love it
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Ain't nobody gonna break my stride. Ain't nobody or anything will slow me down. Oh, no. I got to keep on moven'.