Snow on cars--A rant

[woodmort]

The "I don't have time." and "I can't reach it." are all "I didn't know the gun was loaded." excuses. They're what people give after they cause a preventable accident to happen to someone else.

 

[Raiquee]

I try and get a lot of snow off my car as well, buuut i'm short and preggo and almost dying trying to keep my balance on the drive anyways. I uncover my car a lot more than most people do. But yes, sometimes I leave some on the roof (it ends up being like this little racing stripe) it usually blows off in dust before I hit the freeway.

I also think that dips that cut in front of me with their 4 wheel drive are DANGEROUS too, but no one listens to that!

Sure, you can keep traction in the snow but when you cut me off and SLAM on your breaks because you have to get to starbucks and work in .53242 minutes doesn't mean I CAN and then I slam on my breaks and almost die!

I think everyone has their quirks. Me? Yeah, I don't always get the racing stripe off my car, but I usually drive carefully and consideratly in snow. *Shrug* Hate me if you want.

 

[WoodlandWoman]

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Yes. All of the above, all at the same time.

 

[Raiquee]

oops double post.

 

[EweSheep]

Another preventable accident would be this: do NOT follow closely! Go slow and use defensive driving if necessary.

Hubby is an EMT and rarely those accident occurs from snow flying off cars into windshields. A cop friend of mine said it is because you follow too closely that you would be in the path of a flying debris, regardless of what kind of things upon the rooftops. If you are stuck in the snow blizzard, you surely won't be brushing off every mile.

Common sense is necessary!

 

[sacrifice]

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Exactly. But common sense is not a necessary requirement for a license anymore (if it ever was). Keeping up with traffic does not mean tailgating. Keeping up with traffic still requires you to be at least one car length for every 10 MPH, or some similar distance (like 3 - 5 seconds behind the car you are following - depending on conditions) that is SAFE FOR THE CONDITIONS...... Follow those rules and you will be fine.

 

[Show Me Chick]

My jeep commander looks like a big snowball right now.

I'm not going to clean it off...the way I look at it is it keeps the idiots from following to close behind me. Also I'm about sick of people in small cars getting stuck in front of me blocking the road. Stay home if you don't have a vehicle that's snow worthy and quit expecting those of us with four wheel to pull you out.

 

[EweSheep]

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Hubby loves his Jeep and he enjoys pulling people out of the ditches and even those who decided to have their tire in the storm sewer grate and can't get out.

 

[Royd]

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Exactly. But common sense is not a necessary requirement for a license anymore (if it ever was). Keeping up with traffic does not mean tailgating. Keeping up with traffic still requires you to be at least one car length for every 10 MPH, or some similar distance (like 3 - 5 seconds behind the car you are following - depending on conditions) that is SAFE FOR THE CONDITIONS...... Follow those rules and you will be fine.

Just a slight hijack, but not really....The carlength per 10mph is really old school....The second rule increases the distance exponentially...At 3 second distance, under optimum conditions, at 60mph, you should be 264' behind the car in front of you....At 70 mph 306'... Here's the formula. mph X 1.4667' X 3 seconds= desired distance.

Don't tell me it can't be done...I do it, everyday, on the interstate, at rushhour.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

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Exactly. But common sense is not a necessary requirement for a license anymore (if it ever was). Keeping up with traffic does not mean tailgating. Keeping up with traffic still requires you to be at least one car length for every 10 MPH, or some similar distance (like 3 - 5 seconds behind the car you are following - depending on conditions) that is SAFE FOR THE CONDITIONS...... Follow those rules and you will be fine.

Just a slight hijack, but not really....The carlength per 10mph is really old school....The second rule increases the distance exponentially...At 3 second distance, under optimum conditions, at 60mph, you should be 264' behind the car in front of you....At 70 mph 306'... Here's the formula. mph X 1.4667' X 3 seconds= desired distance.

Don't tell me it can't be done...I do it, everyday, on the interstate, at rushhour.

if a peice of ice falls off of a car and said pieceof ice is heavy enough to actually break a windshield, I do not buy that the driver was not following too closely. Following the three second rule the ice would have already smashed on the road and been broken into a billion pieces before the car got to the point o impact.

Great post !