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MushyHeirloom
12/22/08

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I love knowing how to fucking drive in the snow. And when not to.

I also love rear foglights and that most of the SUV-driving plebeians around me have ABS.
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veedubu
12/22/08

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Guess where/what Interstate I get to drive on in less than 2 hours? That strip of highway is HELL all the time...I have never seen such a bad strip of driving...oh well, Off to East Lansing...Go Spartans!
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mytdawg
12/22/08

@veedubu: The stretch of 96 from Novi south and where it hits 696 is the stretch I'd rather avoid. Any (week) day of the week or year. But specially in weather.
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mytdawg
12/22/08

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That's 2 in 3 years...

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413wedge
12/22/08

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Follow the money. The cult of arogance AKA the powers that be let ANYONE drive in this country, no matter who it kills or maims. Think of all the "failure to control" tickets the local yocals wrote, the big money the local medical folks charged, the increase in insurance rates most will get and the huge grants NHTSA and their pals will get to "study" it all. Crashes and death on the highways in this country pay for a lot of vaction homes, sex and coke... Highway safety and driver training is all about power, status, sex and greed. My condolences to family of the fatality.
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Novaload
12/22/08

@bigblockautoX: I don't think mother nature makes much money off of snow.
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Comrade Teargaskov
12/22/08

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It seems like this happens every year or so on I-94. I don't think people way down in the warm, southern bits of Michigan are unaccustomed to driving slowly when it gets really bad out. That, and I-94 is basically a solid sheet of ice from Lansing to Detroit.

I had a great hoon session in the storm we had last night, in my '73 beetle.
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DoctorNine
12/22/08

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I always wonder why this doesn't happen more often when I'm out in Michigan in the winter. They actually are pretty safe compared to people who see ice and snow less. Shame about the fatality.
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bdon
12/22/08

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You would find me living in the most rural ends of earth before I never live near an inkling of chance of that much F*cking Stupidity. It is indeed no wonder auto manufactires build Crap and talk of a measly Billion dollar loss an Unlucky quarter.Merry xmas douchebags.
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Novaload
12/22/08

@bdon: Uh, what?
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philibuster
12/22/08

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Why don't people just slow down and give more space between cars? Every time one of these pileups happen it is incomprehensible that people wouldn't drive for the conditions. Just slow down.
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stoke
12/22/08

@philibuster: How do you know how much space is between cars if you can't see the car in front of you? And if you can't see its taillights, how do you know to stop?

I was on I-94 two weeks ago in much less difficult snowstorm conditions and things were still dicey. Not surprised at all by this story.
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Stoatmaster
12/23/08

@stoke:

You'd be amazed by how many people forget to turn on their foglights.

Having said that, is it true that in the US you don't actually have to have front and rear foglights?
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Braff
12/22/08

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I was just complaining to someone about driving an S2000 Club Racer in the SoCal rain... I will shut up now.
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layabout
12/22/08

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Wow,those are some severe driving conditions.
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