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Old 12-10-2013, 04:10 PM   #355
DaddyTorgo
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Originally Posted by nilodor View Post
It always amazes me how insane people are when it's winter conditions out there. In that video people are just cruising in at at least twice the speed of the vehicles around them. Even here where it's winter 7 months of the year, people jumping on breaks, breaking hard on ramps that slope down towards the road, randomly jumping on their brakes. I just don't understand where the disconnect is. Are they new drivers? New to northern climates? Not paying attention? Overestimating the conditions?

It's the lack of uniformity in the conditions though right? It can be icy in one spot and clear a couple feet down the road where the sun hits.

I'm with you on people driving recklessly in the snow (we always joke that it takes 1-2 snowfalls for people to adjust their driving habits down here in NE), I think that's a combination of having to adjust to the conditions and not paying attention. I'm not with you on people OVERestimating the conditions though - that seems to say that you think people should be driving faster in the snow.
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