[FredZarguna]

There is another aspect to that, which is this: I bet living in MI you have snow tires. In Central PA I certainly do. There are altogether too many people who believe there is such a thing as "all season tires."

No. There isn't.

The only thing that get's you close to all season tires [and gives you rather poor mileage and poor dry road performance] is leaving your actual honest-to-God SNOW TIRES on all year around.

Don't be fooled, people. There is no suchathing as an all-weather tire. In 4 of 5 accidents I've had in my 45 years of driving, the guy sliding into my back-end was driving on "all weather tires." In the other case, he just didn't know how to drive.

[FreeReign]

There is another aspect to that, which is this: I bet living in MI you have snow tires. In Central PA I certainly do. There are altogether too many people who believe there is such a thing as "all season tires."

I've been driving on all season tires for the past 30 years as do most people here on LI. Don't think it's an issue.

[FredZarguna]

One other problem thing: Automatic transmissions. If you have a manual transmission or an automatic that you can drive manually like the old centripetal clutch, you will make out a lot better in snow and ice. Sticking the tranny in “D” and leaving it there is no way to drive on slick surfaces. Slowing down with the engine instead of brakes, and accelerating when the road permits it and not when a computer decides it’s optimal, also help an awful lot.

[tet68]

leaving your actual honest-to-God SNOW TIRES on all year around.

Down here, we’uns don’t have “snow tires” we have
Mud Grips, and we leave them on year round just to
get out of the drive way.

[Ole Okie]

I got out in this mess, but not on 75 or 85.

Where I was driving the snow was being packed down by traffic into the usual snow/ice mass. It wasn’t bad driving so long as you could leave about three car lengths space in front of you, so long as you had a feel for just how slick the road was at danger points, and so long as someone didn’t decide to turn their emergency flashers on and drive 9 miles an hour when 30 would have been a good speed to handle the hills.

And yes, you could see the little gray head peeping above the dashboard.

[PA Engineer]

Don't be fooled, people. There is no suchathing as an all-weather tire.

I agree. There are no All-Season Tires.

We keep a set (4) of studded snow tires (on rims) for each car (all wheel drive). We also have summer tires that we put on from April until the end of October. My house is situated on a ridge in Western PA above a valley where the main road is. The driveway is over 350 feet long and I can attest to the difference in tire types from experience. Studded tires will get us up to our house in black ice conditions.

Heavy sleet accumulation is a different story.

[EVO X]

Don't be fooled, people. There is no suchathing as an all-weather tire.

People in Atlanta aren't going to be driving around on winter tires. The problem with all season tires is they turn into summer tires after a period of time when they lose some of their tread. If everybody would have had a fresh set of all season tires, I don't think it would have been nearly as bad.