I don't have a holier than thou attidue. Flinging your car around on public roads is dangerous. Period. I would tell you the same thing if you were playing hot potato with a loaded gun with the safety disabled. It's just an invitation for trouble and all kinds of unplanned issues can happen. Some say parking lots are safe even though there are plenty of things to hit but some of the guys on this forum go one step further and do this on public streets. That is not acceptable.

 

lollll that cracked me up for some reason hahaha

 

Do you even live where it snows? Sliding just kind of happens when your in snow no matter you want it to happen or not. Might as well get comfortable doing it a non congested area.

There is like, 5 inches on the ground tonight, and it was interesting coming home to say the least. My 08 X was sliding just taking off from the light.

 

^^Agreed ^^ It's snowing like mad right now and I would rather be able to know how to countersteer and power out of a possible spin than over react like most of the idiots driving around here that end up hitting things or going in ditches. I leave my driveway every morning (after the vehicle is properly warmed up of course) with the back end sliding out..steering wheel countered just right and the gas pedal modulated perfectly...right hand waving to my neighbor who just smiles and waves back. Gawd I love driving in snow.

 

^lol my neighbors all slide into their driveways around here as well. They just dont care. Around here, its part of every day life to slide a little haha

Its the dumbasses going into the ditches that never bothered to correctly learn the capabilites of their vehicles and the roads.

 

Every winter i usually go find a huge parking lot to slide around in. It's not that i want to screw around, but the fact that i want to practice driving in the snow with my car. I like to see what the car will do if i cut the wheel hard and brake or give it too much gas and stuff like that.

Since this is my first winter in my X, i want to see exactly how it will behave in a situation.

 

That is IMO the best thing you can do!! Go Play and Have FUN!! We get together every year and have snow drags! I am looking forward to participating with the G this year.

 

the past weekend i was back in NY and we had some nice slippery snow, so i was playing with my dads I a bit. unfortunately i havent been lucky enough to be in snow with the G yet. i deff cant wait to try it out, i always do that, when it snows, go find a parking lot to keep up on snow driving techniques.

 

The kid i drive to practice said his dad let him drive home last night in the snow in their 08 Denali and his dad let him go into a parking lot and get the feel for a sliding car. IMO that is okay. Its not endangering anyone, its teaching YOU new skills.

 

I suppose that the snow will act like a big pillow to cushion you from any other traffic or pedestrians on the road.

You really are children aren't you? Have you no consideration for the safety of the other people using the roads, including pedestrians????

Anyone who drifts in snow on public streets is begging to end up injuring an innocent bystander if not themselves.

"Almost no other people on the roads..?"

Utterly childish.

Reminds me of a time in court when a young man - who was about to lose his license for exactly that type of stunt - was admonished by the Judge to get snow tires for his bicycle.

 

Last time i checked, quite a few of the most recent posters in this thread have stated that they like to prepare themselves for the inevitable as well.

Call them childish as well then. Dont pinpoint me.

 

Exactly how fast do you think we are going while doing this? My vehicle did not go any faster than 25 m.p.h. on my drive to work this morning which took an hour instead of the normal 20 minutes. You come across very ignorant in passing your judgment. The reality is regardless of my actions the car is going to slip and slide and drift when I drive it in the conditions that are outside my house right now. I would rather be in control of the vehicle.....before I say more...

Have you ever lived in an area where it snows out?

 

+1 and also, these are not high speed tokyo drifts. Like he said, i will agree, any slide i do is 25mph or under and i usually take a good look around before i do it. And i never do it on main roads, unless the car does it on its own (which it likes to do)

 

I sound ignorant? I guess all the Judges, lawyers and lay juries must be ignorant. Same for insurance companies, accident reconstruction experts, law enforcement, and medical professionals. All the State legislators and Secretaries of State too.

I've lived in Chicago all my life. Been driving 26 years.

Prosecuted reckless drivers in Cook County for 6 years. Where victims lost their lives because someone wanted to "see what their car can do in the snow". Have represented 100s of clients for injuries in car accidents.

Even at 25 mph a pedestrian struck by 3500 lbs of steel is going to be seriously injured of not killed.

The state vehicle codes mandate that in inclement weather, all drivers drive slow enough in the given conditions to AVOID sliding or slipping.

Using a claim of "learning to safely control a vehicle" is never a legal nor a rational justification for "seeing what the car can do" on snow covered roads.

You want to practice sliding and slipping you do it on a closed, controlled course.

 

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