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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1959246" data-attributes="member: 5100">Agreed.&nbsp; Tech can be a nice plus, but it doesn't mean you get to disengage your brain.&nbsp;I drove a 4x4 truck from the time I learned to drive until graduating college (yeah, it looked odd by the end).&nbsp; The best advice my dad ever gave me about it was, &quot;You use two-wheel drive as long as you can.&nbsp; When that doesn't work, you use four-wheel drive long enough to get out of trouble.&nbsp; Then, don't do that again.&quot;&nbsp; I don't think I ever got into a position of being really screwed, and I turned into a much better driver.&nbsp;The thing that floored me was when I had to drive through some really, really nasty winter weather.&nbsp; I locked in my 4x4 and ended up in a convoy of 4x4 pickups travelling at about 40mph on the Interstate.&nbsp; You'd think that'd be a clue to the other drivers, but there were a huge number of compact cars that would blow right past us.&nbsp; Almost every one of them would get a quarter mile ahead of us and start spinning.&nbsp; Some regained control but many ended up off the road (on the shoulder, I'd have stopped if I thought they were hurt).&nbsp; &nbsp;To this day, I cannot fathom what would make a driver think that's a good idea when there are a half-dozen obvious off-road-types that are practically inching along and clustered together.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 1959246, member: 5100"] Agreed. Tech can be a nice plus, but it doesn't mean you get to disengage your brain. I drove a 4x4 truck from the time I learned to drive until graduating college (yeah, it looked odd by the end). The best advice my dad ever gave me about it was, "You use two-wheel drive as long as you can. When that doesn't work, you use four-wheel drive long enough to get out of trouble. Then, don't do that again." I don't think I ever got into a position of being really screwed, and I turned into a much better driver. The thing that floored me was when I [u]had[/u] to drive through some really, really nasty winter weather. I locked in my 4x4 and ended up in a convoy of 4x4 pickups travelling at about 40mph [u]on the Interstate[/u]. You'd think that'd be a clue to the other drivers, but there were a huge number of compact cars that would blow right past us. Almost every one of them would get a quarter mile ahead of us and start spinning. Some regained control but many ended up off the road (on the shoulder, I'd have stopped if I thought they were hurt). To this day, I cannot fathom what would make a driver think that's a good idea when there are a half-dozen obvious off-road-types that are practically inching along and clustered together. [/QUOTE]

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