All the other idiots on the road with minimal/no snow experience, refrozen sleety wet black ice that's far more treacherous than proper dry snow, hills, roads that are not merely not salted, but so snowed in that even emergency services become unable to move around due to unplowed roads and getting snowed in, ...
I'm arrogant enough to be willing to drive in Seattle snow with careful hill-avoiding route planning (and paranoid checking of hill-prone cross traffic.) Still managed to spend half an hour picking at the ice with a shovel the last time I did so when I didn't give it enough gas to get fully into a parking spot and became utterly immobile on the ice the last time I did so.
Depends on the locale - not all-year around around here (tears up the road?), and I don't believe studded tyres are sufficient to be legal to go through the passes.
All the other idiots on the road with minimal/no snow experience, refrozen sleety wet black ice that's far more treacherous than proper dry snow, hills, roads that are not merely not salted, but so snowed in that even emergency services become unable to move around due to unplowed roads and getting snowed in, ...
I'm arrogant enough to be willing to drive in Seattle snow with careful hill-avoiding route planning (and paranoid checking of hill-prone cross traffic.) Still managed to spend half an hour picking at the ice with a shovel the last time I did so when I didn't give it enough gas to get fully into a parking spot and became utterly immobile on the ice the last time I did so.
This is what we're afraid of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZCyQ3emQg
Or just this last winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GButmfkNGmg
> Are these people driving with Summer tyres
Yes
> Perhaps the roads are not salted in the US?
Inadequately
> Are studded tyres allowed?
Depends on the locale - not all-year around around here (tears up the road?), and I don't believe studded tyres are sufficient to be legal to go through the passes.