The number of clowns in Canada who drive around after clearing the minimum amount of snow necessary to drive their car and see out their windsheild. Beyond lazy
Lived in Massachusetts for a decade, it ain’t just Canadians lemme tell ya
Anywhere there is snow there is people too negligent to clean it off properly.
The worst is when the back window is covered with fluffy snow and you can see that there’s a rear wiper. Like all you have to do is press a single button but apparently that is too much.
Lmao that wiper is frozen stuck to the windshield
That’s why I said “fluffy snow”. Fluffy snow does not freeze wipers to windows.
I’ve might have had cars with a weak back wiper but there’s only one type of snow that it can manage to wipe away and that’s packing snow. 😅 All other types will leave the wiper stuck in the morning
Hey! I’m not lazy! I’m just in a rush, totally different!
Its not just canada, its anywhere that gets snow regularly. I’ve lived throughout the northeast US and there’s these idiots everywhere.
As indicated in the article, this feels like a very Alberta solution to no truck
That’s me, I’ll carry around hundreds of lbs of snow on the roof and fenders of my Wrangler for weeks.
So they’re saving time.
Any negatives?
I guess it might be annoying to drive behind someone with a roof full of snow falling on your windshield.
Yeah, it’s wildly dangerous to drive with ice and snow on the top of your car as it becomes projectiles and hampers other drivers visibility.
So the same as driving behind a large truck?
Only if that large truck has an unsecured load, which is illegal.
So visibility is not an issue, since it is the same as driving behind a truck or a bus. Keep your distance.
How is soft falling snow comparable to heavy goods? Again, keep your distance, as you would when driving behind a truck, and it won’t fall on your car, but on the road. Also, have winter tires.
Are you one of those dangerous drivers that tailgates, and drives way too close, doesn’t keep a safe distance and then blames others?
Wait are you really advocating for the notion that driving with snow on your vehicle is safe and others ought to watch out?
In a handful of the states where snow is common it is illegal to drive with snow on your car, because of how dangerous it is.
Did you also struggle with the concept of how wearing a mask helped protect others, which in turn protected you.
Lmao check lemvotes on this chud
Either you don’t have a drivers license, have never been in traffic or live in a paradise where all drivers are perfect. In any case you have no experience of snow I guess. :)
You can keep all the distance you like, but the second there’s “space” for another car in front of you, someone will drive past and place themselves just in front of you.
Your inability to take responsibility for your own moronic decisions is both pathetic and wrong. Sad. You are genuinely trash if you feel such problems are fine for others to just deal with.
Have fun being trash!
Any negatives?
Yeah. You can kill people.
When that stuff dislodges on the highway it’s not like your car getting hit by a snowball. It’s like having an entire wheelbarrow full of snow hit your car all at once at 50+ mph. Just the weight of it can KO your entire windshield. It’s a super effective way to make someone crash.
Also, it’s not always just snow. If the snow on your vehicle sat there through a couple of freeze/thaw cycles, there can be a big sheet of ice underneath. If that goes through someone’s windshield it can kill them directly. If you live in a snowy place, pretty much everyone you know has a story about the time they almost died because some asshole was too lazy to clean off the roof of their SUV, or because a huge sheet of ice flew off the top of a semi-trailer.
If the snow suddenly obscures the vision of the driver, or a following vehicle, it’s dangerous rather than annoying.
Isn’t it just like driving behind a lorry or large truck? Keep your distance.
The distance that snow can fall off and hit your vehicle can be longer than a safe gap, and in any case, you should generally not be driving in such a way as to rely on other people driving perfectly safely except where it’s impractical not to. Since it’s perfectly practical to fully clear vehicles of snow, that’s what ya gotta do.
You can see it the same way as pulling out in front of someone. Sure, unless you’re a complete moron, doing so rarely results in a crash, because the other driver will brake to avoid hitting you. But every once in a while that driver will be distracted, or unable to react in time, or be unable to slow down as well as you thought. Or, you can see it as slowing down when passing parked cars in narrow situations: everyone should be behaving sensibly and so you should be able to maintain a high speed, but all it takes is someone to step out from behind a car without looking or an oncoming vehicle to deviate from their lane and you have a disaster.
You’re just straight up ignoring all the comments about this being seriously dangerous and causing death. But you’ll reply to one that doesn’t mention it and just be like “so visibility?” Like bruh.
In addition to what the others said, you’re unnecessarily increasing the amount of ice/snow on the road. You also decrease visibility for drivers in the opposite lane depending on the wind direction. It only takes a couple minutes at the most to clean off the majority of snow, unless you’re a lazy tosser.
A few years ago a piece of snow that had hardened from the cold flew off of the top of a guys car and hit my windshield so hard that it spiderwebbed. Snow flying off of a car can also completely blind you for several seconds, since it often comes off all at once like an avalanche.
Why do you think this is unique to Canadians? Americans do it, Europeans do it.
Don’t throw shade when you’re guilty yourself lmfao
Given they’re posting from lemmy.ca they’re probably talking about the country they live in lmao
Schmidt is a well known bad take kinda guy.
One of my favorite hot takes is how “poor people should spend their money smarter, be more responsible so they aren’t poor anymore”
Crazy how you just assumed that they aren’t canadian and that they don’t remove ice/snow from their car, if they have one
Maybe in some parts of Europe, but this is illegal where I live. Punishable by fine or loss of license depending on how severe the coverage is.
This is illegal everywhere.
When I (Texan)lived briefly in the northeast, I loved cleaning all the snow off my car. It was so novel and so satisfying to watch it come off in layers. Especially using the ice scraper on the frozen bottom layer…
A few years after moving back to Texas, we had an unseasonably and record amount of snowfall. I’d kept my window brush/squeegee/scraper, so I ran around my apartment parking lot, asking everyone if they’d like the snow off their car. Some people would see me gleefully cleaning a car, and they’d get excited, saying that they wanted to try it. Enough people wanted to try, that I just left them the scraper and told them my apartment number. A few hours later, there was a knock at my door, and my scraper was outside and 95% of the cars were completely clean.
I guess the moral of the story is to fly in some Texans when the snow gets that bad? I dunno, I just wanted to share.
Bye!
Sounds like a Tom Sawyer move.
Daggum, I sure love painting this fence! I HOPE NO ONE FINDS OUT HOW MUCH FUN I’M HAVING!!!
Yeah, I will admit that there is a strange satisfaction to brushing off snow.
Thick frost however? That’s just torture.
Freezing rain. There’s a special circle in hell for quarter inch thick freezing rain.
I recognise the irony, but the fires of hell don’t burn as hot as my hatred of scraping freezing rain.
1/4 inch thick?!? One year we got it so bad my gfs Durango was fully frozen to the ground, wheel wells and everything, so thick I could break the ice connecting her running board to the ground. Thankfully it was the weekend and she didnt have to work and it kinda warmed up after that but it was a day before I could get her door open and another before it was safe to move from its spot. I tell ya, there were a lot more fun things I was planning that weekend other than spending the whole fucking time unfreezing an suv enough to move it.
That’s such a cute story. It reminds me of when I go to sweep the floor at work and curious kids ask to try using the broom. Hell yeah, little dude! Let’s turn this chore into something fun!
There’s a rotting pumpkin on their doorstep and a brown Christmas tree in their living room.
“Is this the return to Oz?”
It’s all fun and games until you brake and the whole thing slides down and covers the front windshield and you can’t see anything. Source: I was lazy about this once, but never again.
Nothing the wipers can’t handle 🥴
No self respecting Canadian is going to drive around with a road hazard on their roof. Unless they’re from Brampton.
This car looks like it wants to invade Narn
The Ford Mollari
Everybody’s cute. But in steely grey… I’m STUNNING
It’s being nibbled to death by cats.
idiotgloo.
That down force must be crazy!
Looks like they just pulled out of that snow bank behind the truck to take a picture because they were surprised it stayed in place.
Would probably make it melt a little then slide off
Edit: nvm it’s on the roof I’m blind
This is actually a pickup truck I believe, the bed is full.
The rear defrost is right behind the driver, it’s got like 10 feet of snow to get through.
It looks like a car crown.
Isn’t that car in risk of overheating, with its radiator completely covered in snow?
Nah it will be fine.
The work trucks I used to drive in the winter had covers to block airflow from the front because they would get too cold while driving.
It me 😂
People here do not know anything about cars or winter driving. This is just a large rear spoiler fin covered in a dusting of snow. Spoilers on cars are not just for show. My Subaru WRX has a spoiler and it adds aerodynamic down force for better traction. In winter weather a large spoiler like this will make driving feel like there isn’t even ice on the road. Laugh now, but you won’t be laughing when this guy zips by you at 120km/h while you are struggling on the ice.
You’re right, I won’t be laughing when this guy zips by me, shedding huge chunks of his shit directly onto my windshield on the road. If you want downforce, get an actual rear spoiler.
The second sentence addresses your suggestion.
Oh, thanks! I misunderstood.
Dodge the father, ram the pile of snow into the car behind you!
