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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Who's driving has a lot to do with what's "best". I'm assuming @JSH is a professional commercial driver, so I completely understand why he'd want a rear biased RWD vehicle. He knows how to drive one...
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I am not a commercial driver. I'm a manufacturing engineer for an automaker. My profile picture is the latest vehicle we launched.
I did grow up driving RWD cars in Michigan. Snow was a regular occurrence and when I was 15 and had my learner's permit my father would take me to empty parking lots early in the morning and we would practice braking, catching slides, and steering with the throttle. Better to learn at 15 - 20 mph in a big empty parking lot than on the road. Practice enough and it become muscle memory.
I also ride motorcycles quite a bit and have taken some professional training schools and done a bit of racing. Motorcycles are RWD / rear weight bias vehicles. A lot of the throttle / braking reactions are the same even if the controls are in different places.
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
But take any modern day teenager (with few exceptions) and they don't know squat about how to drive slow in the snow.
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Which tells us more about the sorry state of driver's training in the USA than anything else. The fact that you can get a driver's license by doing nothing more than passing a multiple choice test and a quick drive around the block is frightening.