Michigan’s I75 is concrete and it was horrible the decade I was in Michigan.

Unless you’re on compact snow and ice, studs damage the road, and can make your car handle and stop worse than if you didn't have them at all.

Why? Is ice on concrete less slippery than when it’s on asphalt?

i mean, if the road is completely covered in ice, 30mph is actually probably too fast. at 30mph you will still cover 90feet pretty quickly - meaning its not truly that much earlier to have to brake! a split second at most. its a lot of money to spend to avoid just changing your driving habits when the grip disappears 

Just a reminder that the results are OPPOSITE what you see in 99% of winter conditions on paved roads. Studless tires will stop you sooner than studded tires on snowy roads. 

Let your neighbors pick up the tab for repaving the roads after you drive on bare pavement 90% of the time.

no no No NO! this is how we get fringe case idiots driving on studs in hot weather and I FUCKING HATE THAT NOISE

FIFY

They last forever if you use the parking brake as a parking brake, since there is effectively no wear on them. Start using it as a regular brake, and that shoe material wears down rather quickly!

You wouldn’t have hit that tree if you had correct tire pressure.

lol this will end in most people locking up the rear end in a uncontrolled spin. i dont think this should have even been shared, just let ABS get you to a stop.

This seems like great advice if your goal is for people to needlessly wear out their parking brake shoes in the winter. A better solution for most people is to use winter tires, let Electronic Brake Force Distribution (on more modern cars) do its job, and call it a day. If you aren’t driving like a Muppet, you won’t…

I tried pulling the electronic parking brake button in my BMW. It just told me I was an idiot, and drove me into a tree.

He said, to the career scientist with a PhD in the stuff...

Water Expands 9% when it freezes and will crack a block in a heartbeat

Water expands when it freezes (this is why ice floats!). Water is effectively incompressible under any kind of normal conditions and ice is similar, requiring a few hundred bars of pressure to make even a tiny dent in its isothermal compressibility. It may have cracked something in there when it expanded during the…

Maybe nobody actually wants a driverless car?

So Tesla is saying deliveries will commence on 3/15. Maybe Jalopnik can report on that when it actually happens. This second hearing is happening today.

Would it be better if they AutoReplied?

I’m sure that that the only people killed in Autopilot related crashes were pedos and short sellers.