Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PMFJI. Experience and tyres. Some people have hardly ever driven in very slippery conditions and do not know how gentle they need to be to not break traction, and once they have turned the wheel, hit the brakes or throttle too hard they are sliding. And they have no experience of how to correct and catch a slide either. I also find that winter tyres have m-u-c-h more grip than standard ones. Without is a mistake IMO. At Toyota Motorsport in Cologne, where I was senior adviser until they stopped F1, they changed tyres to winter tyres on all their cars, I understood it was a requirement in Germany, but maybe it was a requirement of their insurance policy. Frank On 20 Dec, 2009, at 00:06, Douglas Sharp wrote: > Seth, > > drivers here panic at only a light dusting of snow too - as if they've > never seen the stuff before. > > 50 km tailbacks on most of the Autobahns, trucks slewed diagonally across > 3 lanes, multiple pile-ups, cars in roadside ditches. > > Funny thing is, in Denmark and Sweden, which are really not all that far > away, drivers just carry on driving as usual with hardly any accidents. > > It's a mystery to me. > > More snow forecast and the lowest daytime temperatures were around -24?C > today in southern Germany. We only had -14?. > > The Channel Tunnel had problems with the cold snap too, 4 trains fullied > with passengers were stuck for quite while under the English Channel, not > a pleasant thought at all. > > Cheers > Douglas > > Seth Rosner wrote: >> We?ve already had a cumulative 6-8 inches of snow hereabouts and yesterday >> early morning the air temperature (not wind chill) was -4F, I think that?s >> -19 or -20 C. Fortunately no wind or it would have been tuant. As I write >> there is a true blizzard making its way up the Atlantic coast. Washington >> D.C. already has more snow than it can handle, and it can?t handle any. I >> recall many years ago coming back to my room at the Mayflower Hotel after >> dinner, there was really nothing more than a dusting of snow and I looked >> out my window and saw automobiles simply out of control on ? inch of snow >> on >> Connecticut Avenue, languidly pirouetting, making graceful arcs in the >> pale >> whiteness, quite incredible. I can?t imagine how the capital is going to >> handle this storm. >> >> >> Seth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information