Doesn't anyone use snow chains any more?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_chains

That's hardly any snow at all, you wouldn't use snow chanins for that.
But snow tires on the other hand are quite handy, and indeed mandatory by law in Sweden during winter.
Snow tires with studs is teh #%&*$# when the roads are slippery!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_tyres

The video doesn't translate that there appears to be a pretty good slope there. And the crown of the road leaves people drifting toward the gutter. LOL.. Driving slower and NOT hitting the brakes would probably be a good start..

We drive in the snow every winter. Studded tires are useful only when the roads are icy and then tear the crap out of the pavemnet after. Most cars today are front drive. A reasonable skilled driver should never have a problem in slippery conditions in a front drive vehicel......heck when I used to rally my old mini-cooper my navigator and I would pray for slippery weather because it was SO easy to beat the other guys then.....hand brake turns FTW !! ( or if you are really skilled ..left foot braking)

And it is pretty cruel to sit there and video it and not go up to the top of the hill and basically shut the hill off. Some of those people could have easily been killed or dismembered by getting pinned between cars.

Funny at first. Scary later.

Just look at the first pickup carefully....has NO clue how to drive in slippery weather.....wheels are locked and trying to steer. You cannot steer a wheel that is not rolling....so you pump your brakes. (don't get me started on $%$@^& "antilock brakes) Then notice the speed....those folks don't even KNOW it's slippery. As Jed Clampett might say "Pitifull just pittiful"

Good thing for them when they were just getting started they didn't swim like they drove.

We just had -17F (-27C) ~ -24F (-31C) weather last week. Luckily, there were not a lot of snows.
However, all season tires will be as hard as a hockey puck under those temperature. Winter tires are a must.

No105_Archie, what's wrong with ABS? Most of us do not have the skill to pump the brakes properly and no one can pump it as fast as a ABS.

Tend to agree, driver education also helps big time. I have winter tyres for my 4x4 and for the last 2 years have been great, this year they havn't been on the car yet. I got a set of Verdstien winter tyres for the wife's car and wow they made a huge diffrence to it.

The video, what can one say, inapropriate speed for the conditions, driving without due care and attention.

Mucat....ABS is really good for drivers who are not skilled at driving in slippery conditions and I agree fully that it can "pump" much faster than a human can I just prefer to exert my own control and would like the option to turn the ABS off. I find that it often activates when not needed. I guess it's the same issue as automatic vs manual transmission.