Driving today in extremely icy conditions in my Acura MDX the only vehicles to fling off the road x 7 were pickup trucks including 3 rollovers onto roof (newish Tundra, Dakota, Colorado) in the same general area. Do they lack any saftety standards in terms of rollover protection or stability control?
It was so icy a state trooper on foot fell over and went sliding down into median. The other vehcicle I kept creeping around on a steep hill(5mph!!!) were stuck were Honda Ody and Toyota Sienna's. One Honda Ody actually had winter tires I could see (Michelin X-Ice). Are minivans dreadful loaded in traction?
The other useless vehicle is Prius(tires?)
Interestingly the AWD vehicles including my own had little issue except for occasional kick doing this stuff. The FWD cars with lots of spinning did it.
It was so icy a state trooper on foot fell over and went sliding down into median. The other vehcicle I kept creeping around on a steep hill(5mph!!!) were stuck were Honda Ody and Toyota Sienna's. One Honda Ody actually had winter tires I could see (Michelin X-Ice). Are minivans dreadful loaded in traction?
The other useless vehicle is Prius(tires?)
Interestingly the AWD vehicles including my own had little issue except for occasional kick doing this stuff. The FWD cars with lots of spinning did it.