“We would count all the vehicles If thestuck or upside down and most of them were four wheel drives. Every single time.”
Too much testosterone and a big 4 wheel drive PU/SUV can be a bad combination.
If the snow isn’t knee high on a 9’ basket ball player, I prefer front wheel drive with the anti skid option. My wife’s Lexus 300 in rain and medium snow handles great. Better than my previous Blazer and Bronco with 4 wheel drives.
The Honda Ridge Line with its auto all wheel drive is very surefooted.
One of our younger generation got a Nissan Rogue helwith all wheel drive for his teen agers to drive a curvy 20+ mile each way trip with rain and sometimes snow/sleet to and from school. It has been an excellent and economical vehicle for two teen drivers.
“Too much testosterone and a big 4 wheel drive PU/SUV can be a bad combination”
So to with a self driving car vs someone
walking a bicycle.
Those dudes with the big 4x4’s usually
learn (once upside down), that their
driving style needs some attention.
IF they were actually driving like
a maniac. I’ve see pickups roll that
we’re traveling at 20 mph. It just
requires the right conditions.
I’ve owned a few “lifted vehicles”.
I’ve never been upside down in one.
And I’m pretty sure my testosterone
levels are pretty much on par with
every other male driver on the road.
It was a big SAC base with over 7,000 Air Force personnel so many of them had never seen snow before. As soon as they arrived they would go out and buy a 4 x 4 thinking they needed it and would eventually end up stuck.
I used our FWD vehicles (Taurus SHO and a Plymouth Grand Voyager) and in the 7.5 years there neither of us became stuck, and a few times I had to drive while the snow was still two or three feet on the roads.
I did purchase a 1988 Toyota 4-Runner (V-6) so I could hunt in the Winter. It was the only way to drive out into the wilderness with all that snow. That was the only 4x4 I ever owned and I sold it when we left ND.