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Justice97

Knock on Ice....errr I mean wood.

synolimit

Lateral movement with a ice/snow tire around a corner is also reduced. My summers will slide out at 3mph and put me into a curb. A ice/snow tire within the safe speed limit of a corner holds firm, no chance of slip. Also confirmed with tire rack on a ice rink.

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2011 Nismo#91

So your going to drive at no more then 10 mph during the winter on the highway, which is the speed they did the test at.? And all your ice is going to be nice dry ice rink ice during the winter. I agree with the results that winter tires help and are much better then summer tires but that test is not practical real world conditions.

If you hit a patch of wet ice like you have during or just after an ice storm on the highway your not going to stop in 10' shown in the test, more like a few hundred if your lucky enough to be on a flat area of pavement.

synolimit

When did I say that? I said within the speed limit I drive! And in corners where the yellow signs say 35mph "recommended" I do it. Never once an issue.

Yes it is practical. A ice rink is worse than real world. Real world has ice and snow and salt and bumps of ice and snow etc all to which give more grip than 100% pure ice. It also shows the performance of an ice/snow tire is double the performance of a summer tire no matter the speed. The OP would not of crashed plain and simple. No **** you wouldn't stop at 10 feet on the highway. That's not what where talking about. But I'd rather stop in 100 feet than 200 feet! And who the hell brakes 100% always on ice? You don't! You slow down and with the right tire you can manuver for whatever you need to do. Since an ice/snow tires has a ton of grip in bad weather you can avoid pretty much any situation.

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2011 Nismo#91

Yep that's why pretty much everyone with winter tires has never gotten into an accident in the winter.

I don't know how OH makes their shoulders on the highway but we don't have 100' of pavement on either side of the exit ramps to stop for ice, to go 10' or less to one side your in the ditch, guardrail, or tree.

Practical? Walking across an ice rink flat is easy, walking across a parking lot covered in wet bumpy ice is difficult to keep your balance because your sliding down bumps in all different directions. Their cars wouldn't have stopped all nice and straight, they would have stopped angled, sideways, and backward like cars do when they spin out on ice because road ice is not all nice and flat.