This week has been an interesting one here in the sand hills of North Carolina. As many of you may have heard the South East has been getting a little snow and ice this week. I love it. Reminds me of home up North.
More to the point. I decided to take the opportunity to let the Dynamic Stability Control do what it does best. I pushed the X5 to the edge of control on many roads while driving around Wednesday and Thursday. Foolishly I should add.
Each time the the vehicle started to get out of control the DSC corrected everything perfectly. Even doing 60+ Mph on a bad stretch of twisting ice covered road. When the X started to slip DSC corrected it as if it never even happened. I never get the chance to try it out, because there is far too much traffic in this small town. Finally with the roads nearly empty it was a chance to see what happens. DSC works great! I love my X5!
WARNING: Do not attempt. For your own safety please follow safe winter driving best practices.
The ice and snow are not the dangerous thing here in the South. The biggest danger are the people out driving that have never had experience on ice and snow. So you get the very frightened and extrememly slow driver and you get those drivers that think you can drive as they normally do, jam on the brakes and tailgate.
They just don't have the resources to remove the snow and they have tried this new concept of putting down a salt-brine on the roads before the snow. I'm not yet convinced that it works as well as simple road salt. I'm sure there some overpriced government study that claims it's a good idea, but it didn't work this week. Unless they never put it down this week. Hmmm. Then again there might only be 12 of these brine trucks in the whole state of North Carolina, if that many.
It's a strage place. 20 degrees this week and expected to be 79-80 degrees next week. Anyone up for a round of golf?
02-14-2014, 11:32 AM
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