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diesel_john · 04-17-2008, 09:25 AM

How do you feel about the safety merits of four wheel drive?
I think four wheel drive should be safer than 2, but human natural being what it is, it seems like the more traction(friction) people have the more unsafe situations, they can get into.
I mean, put 4WD in an Audi and some ass tries to drive it up a ski ramp in the Alps. FourWD vehicles have to use 4WD to handle as well as frontWD. The vehicles are made incorrectly. When in 2 wheel drive the heavy end should be doing the driving. How difficult is that?

04-17-2008, 09:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
diesel_john MP$ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 595 Thanks: 5 Thanked 19 Times in 14 Posts	Are four wheel drive vehicles better because they're safer? How do you feel about the safety merits of four wheel drive? I think four wheel drive should be safer than 2, but human natural being what it is, it seems like the more traction(friction) people have the more unsafe situations, they can get into. I mean, put 4WD in an Audi and some ass tries to drive it up a ski ramp in the Alps. FourWD vehicles have to use 4WD to handle as well as frontWD. The vehicles are made incorrectly. When in 2 wheel drive the heavy end should be doing the driving. How difficult is that? Last edited by diesel_john; 04-21-2008 at 11:29 PM..