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Message:: [QUOTE="tscottme, post: 12390094, member: 19119"]My short advice for driving on ise/snow is drive like you have no brakes. Accelerate slowly, say FAR back from anyone in front of you. In fact, stay so far back that you can lift your foot off the "gas pedal" and never touch the brakes and "coast" to a stop without safely. I'm using "coast" to mean stay in gear and let the weight slow you down. Touching the brakes is ALMOST an emergency only tactic. If you start to think you MIGHT need to brake, brake lightly NOW and create even more following distance so you can "coast" to a stop before you get to where the obstacle/vehicle ahead is at. Do everything, steer, accelerate, slow VERY SLOWLY. You can easily spin out accelerating too fast as you can by trying to make a panic stop. Imagine waling on smooth ice in tennis shoes. You go very slow and you make VERY GRADUAL changes to your speed and direction. NOTHING is done quickly or harshly. If you don't knwo what to do, go slower. Be the last person to speed up and see what those in a hurry to speed up have to do 15 seconds after they speed up too much. They slow down.[/QUOTE]