Reminder: AWD helps to go forward, after that, it is all about tires!

[edyvw]

So this happened in NY state:

Subaru WRX Sliced In Half After Trying To Pass In Front Of Snow Plow

A Subaru WRX driver in New York learned a lesson about AWD the hard way and was lucky not to suffer any serious injuries. A snow plow sliced the car in half.

www.motor1.com

Driver obviously was launched by AWD, but I do wonder what tires it had? Anyone here with better computer to zoom one of those photos?

 

[ctechbob]

Doesn't help you stop either.

Best thing to do around where I live is to stay home. Sadly, my job requires attendance and I can't eve count the amount of stupidity I've had to deal with driving to/from work on snow days by people with 4WD/AWD that think they're invincible.

 

[dishdude]

Subaru drivers are the absolute worst drivers on the road, second would be Toyota drivers.

 

[supton]

Subaru drivers are the absolute worst drivers on the road, second would be Toyota drivers.

I'd take offense... 'cept I've been in cars that I've driven... it might be true.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Subaru drivers are the absolute worst drivers on the road,

Right, so when I had my Audi and BMW, I was an OK driver, but as soon as I sat in the Subaru, I forgot how to drive?

 

[dishdude]

Right, so when I had my Audi and BMW, I was an OK driver, but as soon as I sat in the Subaru, I forgot how to drive?

If you got rid of your Audi and BMW for a Subaru as you enter your golden years, I can certainly see that happening. I was behind an Outback wagon tonight that accelerated so slow from a red light only 3 cars got through sticking me at the intersection for another cycle.

 

[wavinwayne]

Subaru drivers are the absolute worst drivers on the road, second would be Toyota drivers.

I was guilty. My Forester's adaptive cruise control and lane-assist features made me a worse driver. I didn't realize how much I had come to depend on those things until I sold it and started driving my BMW that has neither. At least on the BMW I don't have to worry about turn signals..

 

[edyvw]

Doesn't help you stop either.

Best thing to do around where I live is to stay home. Sadly, my job requires attendance and I can't eve count the amount of stupidity I've had to deal with driving to/from work on snow days by people with 4WD/AWD that think they're invincible.

That is why I said: after that, it is all about tires.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Idiots like that are why they put so much salt on the roads

Subaru drivers are the absolute worst drivers on the road, second would be Toyota drivers.

The Altima isn't a Subaru or a Toyota

 

[dishdude]

Idiots like that are why they put so much salt on the roads



The Altima isn't a Subaru or a Toyota

Altima drivers are in a unique category of their own but generally don't impede traffic.

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

If you got rid of your Audi and BMW for a Subaru as you enter your golden years, I can certainly see that happening. I was behind an Outback wagon tonight that accelerated so slow from a red light only 3 cars got through sticking me at the intersection for another cycle.

An extensive catalog of crash videos on YT seems to provide a lot more video evidence that Jeeps and Malibus are significantly worse drivers, statistically, followed closely by jacked-up pickups with southern state plates or slammed pickups in Cali, and Honda Odysseys and CRVs. I’m sure I could come up with some more inaccurate stereotypes if I tried. Most, but not all, Subarus in crash videos are victims.

And it’s not Subaru’s fault that people don’t have the skills required to harness the capabilities; it would be like blaming Lamborghini for the idiots who get sideways on surface streets and jump the curb, removing $60k of carbon fiber ground effects in the process.

I blame the BMVs for not requiring dry, wet, snow, day and night driving to be part of the licensing test requirements, but we’ve already got way too much intrusion already. People need to learn that driving is a responsibility and therefore the onus of safe operation rests on their shoulders, not others around them.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Altima drivers are in a unique category of their own but generally don't impede traffic.

They are the worst around here. Seriously. They think they are BMWs in freeway traffic. I am making a donation to the CHP to save myself against them.

 

[dishdude]

They are the worst around here. Seriously. They think they are BMWs in freeway traffic. I am making a donation to the CHP to save myself against them.

As long as they aren't in my way I don't care what they do!

 

[edyvw]

Altima drivers are in a unique category of their own but generally don't impede traffic.

Altima drivers learn the hard way what is understeer. Somehow, most videos of Altima crashing are understeer-related.

 

[snarl]

 

[snarl]

 

[Rogueman2016s]

All wheel drive and 4 wheel drive don't fix stupidity.

 

[skyactiv]

WRX drivers as a whole are in a different category than Outback, Crosstrek, Impreza and other Subaru drivers.

 

[totegoat]

Neither all-wheel drive or tires can compensate for lousy driving.

 

[captainbeandip]

That crash didn't have much to do with AWD or tires. Even on a dry road on a warm summer day it's likely that this crash would have happened. I think it had more to do with him trying to pass the semi with a giant plow-truck barreling towards him in the opposite direction.