Montreal “First Snow” of the year creates back to back accident
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#2The first time it snows, everyone inexplicably forgets how snow works, and how to drive in it. It's terrifying to be on the road that morning.
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#3I was just talking to my California-raised daughter about flying her back to my home town of Chicago just so she could learn how to drive on snow and ice. I'll start the instruction with this video.
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#4I saw this on my twitter feed and thought wow that is ice on a hill, never a good time for cars. You need retro-rockets not brakes to avoid colliding with others. Or maybe full OMS thruster pods.
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#5The first time it snows, everyone inexplicably forgets how snow works, and how to drive in it. It's terrifying to be on the road that morning.
Its important to realize that it's ice, and it is on a hill. So once you are on it, there is literally nothing you can do about it except slide into the next obstacle. Even the police officer (who probably even has special training for driving in snow) was caught off guard by the fact that for several hundred feet there wasn't just low traction there was zero traction, combined with an inclined plane (hill) and you get this.
Re: Montreal “First Snow” of the year creates back to back accident
#6The first time it snows, everyone inexplicably forgets how snow works, and how to drive in it. It's terrifying to be on the road that morning.
Its important to realize that it's ice, and it is on a hill. So once you are on it, there is literally nothing you can do about it except slide into the next obstacle. Even the police officer (who probably even has special training for driving in snow) was caught off guard by the fact that for several hundred feet there wasn't just low traction there was zero traction, combined with an inclined plane (hill) and you g…
Oh, for sure. But this was about what some stretches of my commute this morning (on flat ground...) looked like, after we got about an inch of snow north of Boston. People swerved and spun out into the ditch all over the place. It's always like that the first snowstorm of the winter.
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#7Postings like these remind me of the final Seinfeld thread about the group filming a crime and ridiculing the victim rather than doing anything to warn or intervene.
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#8Postings like these remind me of the final Seinfeld thread about the group filming a crime and ridiculing the victim rather than doing anything to warn or intervene.
There is a sign truck meant to signal traffic away from the hill towards the end of the video. They were trying to do something about it!
Someone cut in some Christmas music:
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#9Postings like these remind me of the final Seinfeld thread about the group filming a crime and ridiculing the victim rather than doing anything to warn or intervene.
There is a sign truck meant to signal traffic away from the hill towards the end of the video. They were trying to do something about it! Someone cut in some Christmas music: https://twitter.com/vernalkick/status/805835330163183616
I was mainly referring to the general case of people setting up cameras to film ice hazard roadways (especially in residential neighborhoods) for "entertainment" and do nothing to prevent or mitigate it.