depami

^^^^^^^^^^ Some of us just have more common sense than others.

It amazes me how many idiots don't know that ICE IS SLIPPERY!!!!

When they slide off the road, I just drive on by.

gone postal

40 MPH is a fairly common speed when it gets nasty around here. That's about the max people go given visibility and road conditions.

Where the problems come in is when you have some fool doing 20 MPH. If you're going that slow on the interstate, use the state roads.

depami

BCMIF150

What does this have to do with 4WD and 2WD on a highway?

Someone lost control and was hit by a truck....

depami

Nothing .....

..... it has to do with driving 70 on ice!

gone postal

I don't think anyone in the thread has stated that driving 70 MPH on ice was a good idea.

pprior

the problem is that people drive 40 on a salted or slightly snow covered highway, and cause everyone else behind them to slow to such a rate. If you can't drive in snow, stay home when it does!

stevenw00d

It's all a matter of where you live and how others are driving. I'm from Indiana and could drive much faster there in the snow than I can now that I live in NC. My driving ability hasn't changed, but the speed that others are driving, the lack of preparedness, etc. has changed, so I have to compensate. Driving 70mph in winter in Alaska is a lot different than driving 70mph in NC on the one day of the year that we get snow. We had 5" of snow the other day and it took me 6 hours to make the 20 minute drive home (much of which was spent pushing/pulling others out who couldn't drive.)

Back to the original topic... if you don't have 4wd Auto, then you should be switching back and forth between 4wd and 2wd, based on road conditions.

ak_cowboy

I'm guessing that you're in South central? I do The Commute every day and know the exact conditions that you're talking about. I would use 4wd on the side roads, switch to 2wd before merging onto the hwy, then 4wd if it gets nasty again. If you're coasting under 10mph there shouldn't be any issue with shifting the transfer case.

Gravelley

Sorry to tell you your video does no judgement, if you look closely it looks like they pulled out a bit in the other lane to see if they could pass in the on coming traffic lane. As they are doing that they hit the slush in the middle which will cause half the tires to slow the spin because of hitting snow and not pavement. If your dumb enough to try and switch lanes at that speed going from pavement to snow your going to lose control really even at 20mph. All i know is i would rather pass someone then be behind them in any driving conditions, i never trust the driver in front on me or even behind me they ether slam on there brakes for no reason or the other person is up your A** when your already driving over the speed limit.