Car Hockey!

[aleliaert]

Ice hits hilly Portland neighborhood, and the "friction circle" is exceeded. Check out the video at the beginning of the article:

http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/NW_011607ORNstorm_portlandLJ.46895f63.html

Is that an E90 BMW at the end that heroically remains under control? Smooth driving and likely good tires...

[jhadler]

That was impressive!!

I used to live in Portland, and ice is not something that is often encountered (unless you're a skier, or Tonya Harding...), so snow tires are extreemly unlikely to be found on many cars. When it does get icy there, the city is quite literally shut down.

Still, that first car was absurd. I know it was slick and all, but did they really have to constantly keep trying to recover??? It only made it worse...

-Josh2

[usakubko]

that first one is a good example of a bad SUV driver that thinks 4WD will get him/her going straight on this kind of ice. or they just figured what the heck, it's already dented, let's have some fun :D

btw, it's kinda ironic that the two vehicles with AWD (SUV and Subi Outback) were sliding the most, the farthest :D :D

[jhadler]

In the last big storm, in one afternoon, I encountered three cars that had lost it.
1) Big F-250 pick-em-up ended up burried in a ditch on the side of the road. I have no idea what prompted them to loose it on a straight 2-lane road with no side roads, entrances or exits.:confused:
2) Porsche Cayenne sliding across three lanes of 28th street in Boulder just trying to make right turn....LMAO
3) Subaru outback sliding completely sideways down broadway in front of where I work. LMAO-again.

4WD does not mean you're immune to the elements. It only means you can apply more power to the ground over a greater contact patch. The Pirelli ad says it best..."power is nothing without control". It doesn't do much good to have a $60k SUV on summer sport tires driving around in the snow... 4WD means four wheel -drive-. For the regular driver, it won't make you turn any better, and it won't make you stop any better. But TIRES will. So far in all the storms we've had this season, I have seen more 4WD vehicles abandoned or crashed than 2WD cars with a ratio of something like 5 or more to 1. Rediculous...if someone buys a $60k SUV, they really should be able to get some snow tires for it...

-Josh2

[LoCore]

I've always heard:

4-Wheel Drive != 4-Wheel Stop

:-)