What annoys me is that most people either take no notice of the conditions & drive in their usual ty way, or they drive at a ridiculously slow speed, and brake unpredictably.

I try to drive at a reasonable speed, avoid the brake & keep as big a stopping distance as possible

Agreed!!

The problem is... when do you ever get taught how to do that?? There's certainly no reference to it in the test (or wasn't when I passed).

If you learnt and passed during the summer, or a winter that didn't see snow, then you can almost forgive people for not knowing what to do. It comes with experience and common sense, the problem is common sense isn't that common and I'm not being patronising but I think a lot of people genuinely need to be taught how to drive in snow.

Agree there needs to be something in the test. There was when I did my advanced driving you get to go on the skid pans and become a child again. However some of the driving I today witnessed was very poor and just common sense

I was learning during some snowy weeks so I got some pretty valuable knowledge. Although a lot of it is common sense. The setting off in 2nd/avoiding reving the balls out of it in 1st seems to be the one that 50% of women don't know about.

Totally agree!! But if nobody ever tells them, it's not really their fault for not knowing it. The government should run public information adds like the good old days!

As a slight deviation... I have an automatic now and it's the first winter I've had it. Fantastic car 99% of the time but I'm finding it slightly annoying not having the control over the gears in these conditions.

Same goes if theres no snow, noted majorly in the elderly in our society.

Never realised what a moaning set of barstewards drivers are!!

So do I, then I hope it slides down a hill into your parked car

I`d watch your wooden shack in this weather too, it wont take long for it to rot

Saw Audi TT convertible this morning on A64 driving along with roof down!

He might as well have a tattoo on his forehead saying 'knob-head'

Still can't fathom why drivers think it fine to clear a little port hole in the snow on their windscreen and set off. They deserve tattooing as well !

How about people who leave 6 inches of piled snow on their roofs. Thats an accident waiting to happen when all off a sudden they're slowing down and it al decides to slide over their windscreen

Aye and dont people use their back windows nowadays? I've seen numerous still covered.

2 hours to do my 17 mile commute this morning - I love snow !!

Some tool in a 4 x 4 came screaming up the hill earlier one hand on the wheel thinking he was billy big balls..........so hoped he'd slide straight through the wall but sadly he just about made it round the corner!