Ice Cometh, Man: No, You Are Not an Excellent Driver

• yeah...lol...#1 in Japan

• Knobbies work better in snow than highway tread

• For the typical Texan the answer to any driving problem be it rain, sleet, ice, deer, sun light, etc. is "MORE SPEED!". We know how well that always turns out. Submitted for you approval, here's two Texas drivers of Corvettes in the Woodlands,  TX who decide to drag race on road with bicyclist and children around on Thanksgiving. Thankful only they suffered the consequences, . . . http://youtu.be/kzlg3oQMze4

• I would like to see a more fearless study. One that proves that 80% of people on the interstate driving slow in the fast lane and refusing to move over are black women. Or 75% of people blocking traffic by stopping in the middle lane to take a last second right turn are middle eastern. Or that 90% of people sliding into other drivers during the occasional texas ice storm are young rednecks that think duallys are ice proof.

• How do you know it recently snowed in Colorado? All the abandoned pickups and SUVs in the medians.

• Note to self - stay out of this dude's zip code in inclement weather....

• Suburban: you got it.

• Right, it's a judgment call, but unless you're very close to the intersection when the light turns yellow, the odds are good that it will be red by the time you reach the line. Slowing down is what most folks will have to do so they can be stopped safely for that red light. (Engaging the warp drive is what far too many drivers choose, even if it means the light will be red as they blast through the intersection.)

• What a thrill to live here last February when Jerry Jones and Roger Staubach had what was coming to them with an EXCELLENT Super Bowl ice/snow fiasco.  Although the Dec. 1972, the Dec. 1978, and Nov. 1993  ice storms were thicker and slicker, the Super Storm couldn't have been timed any better and proved that karma can be a fantastically delicious thing. 

• Jim, you decide, whether you can pass the intersection line before the light turns red, if not, I begin to stop.  Slowing down, could actually cause one more danger as the light, even the yellow is timed to allow someone driving the posted speed to clear the intersection.  Slowing down could protract your voiding the intersection, exposing you to those timing or gunning the light.  Again, at posted speeds, if you enter the intersection on a yellow, you should be able to pass through before the others get a green light.  As someone who drives a dually, I find I need to speed up to hit the posted speed.  Look Jim, in case you haven't noticed, good old red meat partisan positions are much better for your comment count, and likely your readership.  Stick with that and at least you'll keep Rob't happy.  I'm guessing there's no pleasing you.  (good thing)

• I am Wintering in Minnesota and I have to say, I'm appalled at four-way stop signs. Why? Because they actually know how they work! When it snowed two weeks ago, I took the four-wheel drive Jeep out for a fun spin and no, they do not stop in the snow/ice. Thankfully the roads were barren of other drivers. 

• Ice "scrapper"? 

• If we didn't still have ice-age types of bosses who think you think you have to be managed to death or else you won't file that darn TPS report, then we'd be more comfortable and willing to tell our understanding bosses that it's just too stupid to be driving around and we'll work from home during the bad weather days.  Did I miss something, or do we in fact live in the digital age? 

• I didn't even realize they used the Texas Motorist's Handbook in the Northeast. But despite what the handbook says, you're clearly supposed to do something when the light turns yellow (indicating that it's about to turn red). You either start slowing down in anticipation of having to stop for the red light, or you keep going because you can't safely slow and stop before entering the intersection. So, if you asked people what they're supposed to do when they see a yellow light, and they answer, "I have no fucking clue. The handbook just says the light is about to turn red, which means absolutely nothing to me", they're probably not someone you want sharing the road with you.

• Jim, Hannibal is correct.  A solid yellow light simply means that the light is going to change to red soon. Its on page 5-1 on the Texas motorist handbook if you want to check it out. Nothing there about slowing down. Or if you're really bored, its Title 7, Subtitle C, Sec. 544.007(e) in the Texas statutes.

• I have driven in multiple parts of the world. I have seen winters in Northern Germany and Saudi Arabia. Anyone with half a brain tries to stay home in icy weather in Texas. It is not the driving ability of others alone that inspires this. We also just don't have the equipment for this kind of weather. Our vehicles, our roads, and our road equipment are not up to the job. I am so happy I now have a job where I can work from home.

• Shit Jim is this the best you can come up with on slow Bumday. Dallass mostly ends up with glare ice or what you carpetbaggers call black ice. Ooops that ain't supposed to be a race thang. Spike tires ain't for sale down here cept in the Valley but that's cuz of road spikes.

• Perhaps this year we can have the toboggan car-sled tryouts on the High Five when it ices over.   Or perhaps they should just close it down and find some way to ferry sleders or skiers up to the top for them to slide down.    Seriously I plan to buy a couple bags of sand for the house (and the street outside) and for the cars too.

• Was this on the final round of "Family Feud"?  Survey Says .... 8-D

• Good advice.  From another Colorado resident 6.  Fresh snow is your friend.  Ruts are not. But really, why buy an ice scraper.  You can just do as my former neighbors did and try to melt the ice off the window with hot water.  The sight of that windshield cracking made it worth it to live in Dallas.

• You are correct ... I was working off of poetic license and a dim memory ... Of course I will never forget the day when I stopped for a red light and the driver behind me honked their horn and gestured at me that I was #1.

• Hannibal, I'm not hearing back from you, so I am forced to interpolate. I can only conclude that your mental process would be, "Yellow light ahead. Guess they want me to keep going fast like it was a green light." So let me ask you another question: why do you think they have yellow lights? You can do this, Hannibal. Give it a try.

• So, Hannibal, please tell us: what do you do when you see a yellow light?

• It's funny when someone who thinks they know it all spouts off in public about something they obviously know nothing about. Unfortunately, Schutze, you seem to be doing this more and more lately. While a flashing yellow light means caution, a solid yellow (technically amber) light does not mean slow down. When used in a traffic signal, under Texas law all a yellow light indicates is that the signal is about to change to change to red. You do not have to slow down for a yellow light. You do not have to stop for a yellow light. There is no such thing as "running" a yellow light. In terms of legally entering an intersection, a yellow light is exactly the same as a green light. Only when the signal turns red are you prohibited from entering the intersection. The next time you write about the "dumbest" drivers, perhaps you should consider it a start on your autobiography?

• My inner-nerd must interject: "I watched you very closely. Red light means stop. Green light means go. Yellow light means, go very fast."

• Survey said nation's best drivers are from the middle west. I figured that's because, what else have they got to do?

• Of course it is helpful to know the true difference between 2 wheel and 4 wheel drive .... 2 wheel drive gets you stuck, 4 wheel drive gets you more stuck.

• My moms from Ohio, so I learned how to drive in great lakes winters and these piddley-assed excuses for "school closers" down here. I have proper tools in my car including an ice scrapper/snow brush know how to properly drive in the mess that is Dallas on a snow day.

• Was almost destroyed during the Super Bowl going under 35 at the Maple-Routh connection. Drifted right through a red light, thought self would die.

• Tips from a former Colorado resident: 1. 4 wheel drive doesn't make you stop any better, morons. 2. Get the hell away from me. All I want is space in crappy road conditions. Don't be on my bumper, don't match my speed beside me, don't take up two freaking lanes. 3. Death grips on the wheel don't help. 4. Try using your turn signals for once. 5. Buy a damn ice scraper.

• From "Starman" ... "Of course I know how to drive ... Green means go Yellow means go fast Red means go very fast."

• Consider that much of the current population inNorth Texas is from the NorthEast, Cali or Mexico, you have the perfect storm for wreckers and body shops!

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