Educational approach comes with colourful diagram. Inclining and declining lines cross at 7 degrees Celsius, temperature of flexibility loss for compounds used in summer and so-called all-season tires.
There are many drivers who have never tried winter tires, and this diagram is probably not addressed to that category. Hopefully there is small but clever group of the drivers appreciating science and common sense, willing to purchase a set of proper tires and move at legal speed limit regardless of the weather.
If winter tires don't become mandatory in Ontario some time soon, may be all the vehicles with no winter tires should be legislated to stick to slow lanes, leaving fast lanes to those able to move?
2 comments:
Agree that slow vehicles should just stay in the left lane. But ideally winter tires should be mandatory. In fact, they should sell them together with new cars as part of the financing.
In Ontario they should stay in the right lane. It does not make sense when all the vehicles take all the lanes. Vehicles equipped with winter tires on winter roads can maintain the same speed or close to that in summer. As for selling the cars with two set of tires - great idea. In fact many Quebec dealerships offer that now.
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