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I did this once just to drive 2 blocks on totally empty streets. After 30 seconds, I had my passenger open the window and see if I was good on their side. Shit was terrifying. I can’t imagine doing it on a legit commute. You gotta convince yourself you’ve got 8-inch solid unobtainium plot armor to do that.

Every winter, I'm reminded of what driver vantage points some people think are optional. Half the windscreen and none of the other windows cleared? Good to go. It really explains what we see on the roads the rest of the year.

I feel safer in the bigger vehicle

edit: guys I was kidding

My old 3500lb death machine (2002 525i) just recalled for unsafe airbags.

I must have accidentally received your winter weather. I live in South Carolina and it was -4c this morning when I was leaving for work.

I spent the week after Christmas at the top of Michigan's upper peninsula. I was close enough to get Welcome to Canada messages on my phone but I don't have a current passport so I couldn't visit. Which is bullshit by the way, I've been there with just my DL many times.

But there was no snow. It rained several days. WTF?!

-35 here in Sweden currently

In Finland we've had -5C for like the whole winter but now there's been a week of -25C. And back to positive next week.

It seems to finally be consistently below freezing in southern Wisconsin. We had some snow in November that made me hopeful but yet another year with little snow until the new year

That's not what garages are for. They're for storing all of the crap you definitely need.

I built a house with a garage. I laugh at the frostbitten peasant cruisers on a cold morning.

Sometimes I wash my car an hour before a thunderstorm. You can get away with these things.

The problem is not snow, it's the ice that forms on the windscreen during the night, because of the sub-zero temperatures. It takes time to scrape it off, and if you're late, you do the bare minimum to see where you are going, hoping your car will heat up and melt the rest before you crash!

They snoozed the alarm so they are late and didnt clean the windshield to rush somewhere

And it's incredibly stupid and more common than it should be. Takes 20 seconds to do the windows properly.

A girl in my city did that a few years ago and hit a pedestrian and then went to jail for it.

Worst 20 seconds she ever saved.

And if you are unlucky, police will stop you, ticket you and tell you to tow your vehicle home.

That’s actually if you’re lucky my dude.

If you’re really really unlucky then you slam your truck into a minivan full of kids on their way to school and kill them all because you decided to drive through a layer of Vaseline ice on your windshield and endanger everyone else around you.

I usually use deicer liquid in spray form directly on the windshield. The ice becomes mushy in like 5 seconds and I just have to wipe it off. But yeah, it's only -5 to 0 here, so maybe it's not very effective where you are.

Time lost at home can't be made up on the road.

Just this morning I was an hour late. I spend most of my weekends helping my parents a few hours away, so have a 4am alarm set for Monday mornings to get up, shower, and head to work.

Because of the Holiday, my first day of work this week was a Tuesday, so my 4am alarm didn't go off and I got up at 5.

I got up, showered, sent a text to the team that I'd screwed up, and went to work.

Yeah, I could've driven 100mph on country roads and blown through a few red lights in the middle of nowhere near my parents' place. But I also could've died trying that shit. Instead I just drove normal, got to work late, and it wasn't a big deal.

I get that not everyone works in an environment where getting in late isn't a big deal. But a lot more people do than realize it. Most workplaces can be flexible, and will be when it matters. If they're assholes about it when they don't need to be - look for somewhere better.

Don’t you know that Lemmy memes are meant to be debated and disproven at every opportunity?!