Not surprising. As a general rule, cops are the assholes you grew up with who managed to do something with their lives; plow drivers are those same assholes who remain unemployable in adulthood.

I wish that wasn't only a law, but a hard-wired mandate on all vehicles. The amount of times I see folks materializing out of nowhere in the rain because they can't be bothered to put their lights on... God damn.

To be fair, the OP should be ticketed just for driving an HHR. ;)

It's impossible to say this without sounding sarcastic or insincere, but you are a hero.

Sigh. I didn't mean to be quite so insulting.

Not sure what you mean by sensitive. I'm not offended by anything but your ignorance / level of delusion.

Don't be an asshole. If the non-standard historical meaning of a random symbol is on the list of your educational "must-haves," I'm glad you're not running a school system.

EHHHH wrong.

Symbols only have meaning to the person interpreting the symbol, so you can't say the swastika "is" a positive symbol. It may have been, but you'd be hard-pressed to find ANYONE who associates it with anything positive nowadays, except history buffs and contrarians (decidedly NOT mutually exclusive groups...)

Ding ding. It's unfortunate, but that doesn't mean it's untrue. Anyone who works in engineering is probably familiar with this phenomenon. Now, could Volkswagen have tried to make a statement and put some female engineers in there, sure, but... that's not a) what the spot was about or b) their job.

The bluetooth that connects to the stereo is irrelevant, you need to buy an OBD bluetooth adapter, and plug it into your car's OBD port.

It's an excellent point. The modern media is often the equivalent of the old "yelling fire in a crowded movie theater," on a hugely larger scale. Of course they frame it as a public service ("we recommend for your safety you leave work as soon as possible") but so often just creates WAY more hysteria than is…

I'm just trying not to pile onto the "everyone in the South must be dumb" mentality and think of it from a rational standpoint, and certainly not pound my chest and say us hearty New Englanders would never have something like this happen. We get snow and ice nearly every week up here in the winter, and generally we…

Say whatever you want. I know you think you're smarter than everyone (I thought people from Canada were nice and or humble?) and if you were there somehow you would Superman your way through all this, but the truth is you'd be stuck in it just like everyone else, even if you do somehow have magical driving skills.

Well, in this specific case... pretty far. It's coldish (really not TAHT cold) but the weather is stable. It's just bad /icy driving conditions. YOu could walk SEVERAL miles with almost no risk other than cars sliding on the ice and hitting you. It's one thing if you're talking about a blizzard. This is just…

Yes? I live in NH. YOu think I don't know what snow is? We also have treated roads, and vehicles ready for this weather. I'd love to see you drive "sensibly" on untreated roads with summer tires, and show us all how awesome you are at it as you slide right off a bridge. The only reason anyone from snowy areas has…

I'm with you Mailbox. We're nto talking 4-5 hours here, we're talking 12+ hours. I'd do my best to get my car off the actual road, of course, but you better bet I'd walk home before I hit the TWELVE HOUR mark.

This is ignorant and completely untrue on every possible level.

I know everyone outside of that area thinks they're God's gift to winter driving, but.... try driving summer tires on untreated roads ANYWHERE. YOu can be a professional and that shit's still gonna be HARD. Throw in a lot of inexperience and I'm amazed it wasn't worse.

If you have enough friends, everyone throw in 100 bucks, find the CHEAPEST used manual you can, drive it to the closest parking lot, learn as much as you can in that parking lot, and then donate it to charity.