NAC: Icy Pileup in Montreal...What Lessons to Learn?

[Kent McLean]

Einhorn Hofmann wrote:
> I'm wondering if all the vehicles that lost control don't have anti-lock
> brakes.  Would they disable anti-lock brakes on a police cruiser?

When you are sideways sliding down the hill, brakes don’t matter.  I’ll say it’s tires - a hard, durable compound on the buses and big trucks; all weather on most of the cars; and snow tires, maybe studded, on the taxi that escaped it.

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Kent McLean
’02 VW Beetle TDI and lots of ex-Audis, including Bad Puppy