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> trying to catch a yellow light It sounds very intentional and reckless.
Other countries and yourself may be different, but you'd find it difficult to find a US driver who has not tried to catch a yellow light.
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Other countries and yourself may be different, but you'd find it difficult to find a US driver who has not tried to catch a yellow light.
I have tried to catch many a yellow light myself and am still to slide one lane, let alone 4. Don't try to catch it from a mile away.
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I've done a course like that but i question the value. The few hours i spent sliding around on a slippery track 10 years ago didn't really embedd the skills to the point that i would know what to do if my cars got in a slide today. Most people don't get into situations like that enough to train the skills regularly.
Living in a place where it snows has done a lot more for my skills. I would recommend to anyone that they find an empty, snowy parking lot and try throwing their car around a little just to see how it reacts.
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You're not wrong in the sense that snow tires are designed first to stop you. Not to start you. But if you call snow tires on a FWD "kool-aid" I completely disagree with you there. unless maybe you bought "true" all seasons (tires where some of the tread is like a winter tire), which are still relatively new and have a lot of tread depth. Those can probably get you by OK to where you would think true snow tires aren'…
I've seen the true all seasons more and more. Both my and my mom's car have standard tires from the manufacturer, yet both also have the M+S designation that indicates a Mud and Snow tire. Are these tires of the form you describe?
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It varies by state, but most of them require either a driving exam or a piece of paper from a drivers education class. Texas is something of an exception in it's general lassie faire posture.
Naw, it's not the exception. Got my license in California, instructor skipped the freeway part of the drive test which is mandatory. Moved to Oregon, new licensees require both a written and a drive test but the DMV skipped them both because I already had an out-of-state (California) license. Driver licenses are literally stupid easy to get here in the US.
I got a surprise in CA when I went to the DMV (waited four hours) and then was surprised with a written test. I guess it makes sense.