This winter caused a lot of havoc in the American traffic, with a lot of traffic accidents. When people decide to drive their vehicles regardless of what tyres they have mounted on them, they are bound to end up in some problems. The biggest challenge is that most vehicles don’t have tires mounted that are designed for winter conditions. If the have the sever service symbol or mountain snowflake symbol, they have been tested and approved for winter conditions and these are the tires that you should have mounted on your vehicle if you want to drive when there is winter conditions outside.

You don’t need to have a winter tires or a so-called snow tire, if you select a all-weather tire that is winter approved. These tires are good enough to keep you safe regardless of what the weather forecast there is. Winter tires might do a bit better job at keeping you perfectly safe, but the all-weather tires will be safe enough and miles better than trying to drive through a snow storm with summer tires or all-season tires that are not approved for winter conditions.

Europe has had for ages a law, varying from making them mandatory during the winter season to making them mandatory if there are winter conditions where you drive. The latter gives you a bit more flexibility, but still causes some problems. If you go for full-fledged winter tires, then you can chose a studded tire or a non-studded tire. Some states will have limitation on where the studded tires can be used, while the non-studded tires you can use anywhere. The non-studded tires are still great on both snow and ice and can also handle slush in the way that they can prevent slush planing by being able to push away the slush from the surface, to prevent a lose of contact between the tire and the road.

I have been following the situation in North America, just hoping that there would be some type of legislation making winter approved tires mandatory in the areas that clearly have a winter season with cold weather and snow and ice. If you don’t feel like changing between tires, then you have the all-weather option, which might be more convenient especially for the areas that might only have limited winters, as you are always ready to jump in the car and drive away. Since most Americans can’t live without a car, this would solve those issues as well.

Insurance companies should also be interested in this, as they would not have to pay for accidents that happen when the drivers are not using the appropriate tires when there are winter conditions outside. This would force the drivers to comply to the regulations with fear of being uninsured if they don’t follow them. The whole aim is to keep people safe and away from accidents, so that everyone can keep driving regardless of the season.