Its only a bit of snow

[C.A.R.]

If you were sliding at all, let alone 5m, then you werent driving to the conditions.

Would you drive in the wet on slicks if the govt allowed it?

Not really, I still stopped well in advance, in a straight line, as anticipated.

Why would I drive in the wet on slicks? Your analogy makes no sense.

Fact is, all-weather tyres are 'sufficient' for people getting about all year round, with the exception of perhaps 3 or 5 days when it snows. Even then, I fail to see how winter tyres @ £200 are a 'sound investment', when they aren't guarranteed to stop you messing up or indeed someone else sliding into you anyway.

On the continent, where the road surface is white for months of the year and they have significant snowfall, it makes sense. Here, in Britain, it just doesn't.

But, it's probably a good idea to be in the tyre business right now, since there are a lot of impressionable people out there willing to splash cash on an unecessary set of tyres...