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They won't stay on the unplowed bike roads. Bicycles can't travel in 10 cm snow.

Enjoy unplowed streets and no street lights while things "pick up", though. Oh, wait, the rencen has a parking garage.

You mentioned unplowed roads. If that also includes mountains you tend to use chain.

So people used to winter driving as transplants still wouldn’t be used to unplowed, unsalted roads.

I live in New England, land of unplowed roads and potholes. Even our old Saab would bottom out on the regular.

I love 4wd for when I have to get somewhere on unplowed roads. I'm a very cautious driver.

Tackle an unplowed, 45 degree hill littered with vehicles that didn't make it.

Tackle an unplowed, 45 degree hill littered with vehicles that didn't make it. I'm sure your advice is a bit tongue in cheek?

They suck in unplowed snow or in the flood, pretty bad even in just a heavy rain. Many places where people live in the US get either or all of the above.

Lol. Maybe is Seattle or SF. Biking in unplowed snow/ice is far slower, when it is even possible.

As you note an ill-equipped ICE SUV on unplowed roads is just as much as disaster." An EV" is not inherently more poorly equipped for unplowed roads and going off-road.

Tackle an unplowed, 45 degree hill littered with vehicles that didn't make it. This isn’t great advice unless you want your insurance premiums to go up.

I've had to rock it once so far this season the morning after I plunged it into an unplowed slot during the last lake effect storm. AWD isn't a necessity, but it sure feels like a cheat-code.

Used car with front wheel drive, preferably traction control, put Blizzaks on all four wheels and you’ll do OK in snow unless you insist on driving on unplowed roads. There are a wide range of cars I would consider.

> Used car with front wheel drive, preferably traction control, put Blizzaks on all four wheels and you’ll do OK in snow unless you insist on driving on unplowed roads. There's more to cars in snowy climate than driving.

I mean, what if someone offered you a car that would drive you around except in comically cherry picked conditions of unplowed roads during active snowstorms? Drive yourself if there's snow on the ground[1].

You'd ensure they not use 95 by putting up a sign on the onramp that says road closed and you'd leave it unplowed while you focused your efforts on keeping other routes clear. Many trucks would probably just lay up at a gas station.

Never have had an issue with winter tires, and sometimes I deliberately seek out empty unplowed parking lots just to have extra fun in.

I can't imagine why bikes would make it harder to get around, I live in a country where people use bikes when there's decimeters of unplowed snow outside. The only thing that's hard to do while riding a bike is getting up stairs but it's only a tiny bit of a trip.

AWD adds the most value when there was a heavy snow, unplowed roads, and relatively low traffic since. In any other case it’s really not all that helpful, except maybe a slippery uphill intersection but even then good tires help there and the inverse situation whereas AWD only helps in the one direction.

Off the top of my head the most challenging driving conditions I semi-regularly encounter in the Northeast US are: - Heavy snow falling at night on an unplowed, narrow road with ill-defined shoulders. The falling snow ruins visibility, and the smooth, white, unplowed surface of the road makes it super hard to identify where the pavement actually ends.