I saw that too, but only because the damn thing is so big the other wheels werent even in the shot.

Heavy vehicles are exempt so is the cyber truck?

I don't want to defend the cybertruck, but on a Prius Prime you'd also be completely stuck if you didn't disable the traction control.

What are snow tires in Quebec? I recently learned that some states and provinces count M+S and 3pms tires to be snow tires, while I’ve heard of some as studded.

Also, I thought the weight would actually help the cybertruck. A lot of 2WD trucks spin on snow and ice because there’s not enough weight on their drive axle so they can’t get enough traction

M+S won't cut it. It needs to have the symbol below on it or be studded.

As for the weight, more weight does not necessarily equate more better. There is a sweet spot where going on either side of it makes it worse. Too light and it gets no traction. Too heavy and it just sinks into the snow and digs itself deeper instead of moving forward, especially if the tires are too skinny for the weight which is likely the case for Cybertrucks judging from all the videos of them getting stuck in sand. I presume that where this sweet spot is depends entirely on the conditions.

Also the RWD pickup trucks are especially bad in the snow not solely because of the lack of weight over the rear driving wheels, but mainly because it has to push along the undriven front wheels that are carrying most of the truck's weight. It isn't as much of a vehicle weight problem as it is a weight distribution over the driving wheels problem.

I do a significant amount of driving, and unfortunately some of that is done in snow. I would recommend to everyone driving in snowy conditions as little as possible, it sucks & can become dangerous.

I was not there. But sometimes if you drive a long distance & heat up your tires, then you park on top of snow, and your tires melt the snow...now your vehicle is effectively parked on a bunch of ice. This wasn't ice before, there's "powdered snow all around it" as some of you are saying, but there's probably fucking compacted snow & ice formed under those wheels. Probably, again, idk. But I've parked & gone to take off, it's hard to gain traction from parked when everything's all slicked up. It really sucks.

Recovery methods sand & kitty litter are fine, you can get a little shovel & work on digging yourself out it's cute but idk you're just wasting a bunch of time in bad weather conditions & it's trial & error. I have bought GoTreads and they're fucking amazing. Just place them, correctly, around the drive wheels in the direction you wish to go and slowly drive onto them to engage. Instant traction & it gets you unstuck, it's probably saved me upwards of 6 times & I've only had them a couple years. I have saved 3 other people.

The "go slow" thing is real, one of those saves was an Amazon Prime driver who was fucking stupid & spun up his RPMs very very fast. Because he was panicked...and a bad driver. High RPMs won't help engage traction, will heat up tires & the GoTreads...and start to physically melt, destroy the GoTreads. So please, respect the wintery conditions, respect your car, and the recovery equipment. They're still operational but they're my backup pair.

If you want to save some money I've also used The Portable Tow Truck grip strips, but they're much cheaper built, not as compact, and I don't believe they have a lifetime warranty like GoTreads do.

...any recovery method you use is cheaper than a tow (or 2, or 3+). But it only works if you build it out before disaster strikes. Be prepared! It could save your time, your money, your car, or even your life. Winter driving is no joke.

spun up his RPMs very very fast. Because he was panicked…and a bad driver.

I was in Calgary in 94, and in one winter at the intersection of MacLeod and 71 Ave S . I was turning left. It's hard to see, but there's just the smallest of slopes there.

I'd driven a bit in the rockies in snow, by then; not as work, but for work like as a commute, sure. I wasn't a noob but it was a year or so before I successfully moose-checked a 91 firefly coming west outta banff with an actual moose in an actual blizzard and remarkably no one died, so I was still a little virginal.

And it was a bad day. It was Calgary, it was university days, it was three jobs and full-time comp-sci courses and a bad living arrangement with some really worthless family members, etc. Just, bad all 'round. And I was at the red. It went green. I sloooowwwwwly gave this piece of shit monte carlo some gas and the rear tires spun.

And at that point I kinda slipped out of the groove a bit. I didn't let up on the gas. I kept it there, the entire green-yellow-red cycle, just spinning and maybe crying a little at the futility of existence in Alberta at all, let alone in the dirty grey urban winter hellscape it is with all the really ignorant people around me, and *why the fuck was I even here in this place where places you have to go require a shitty car anyway and can I just maybe leave right now and aaaaaaaahh..." and, yeah.

And the light turned green. And I remembered my training on a beetle in the snow, and I let off the gas a bit and even the wheels on this candy-ass front-engine floaty-ass-end shitty goddamned whaler of a car with no justification for even existence caught in the warm trough I made, and I started moving forward ever so slowly, and I crested the center and I made my turn and I continued on home after using the entire green to just cross the intersection, cursing and grinding my teeth and wiping my tears a bit amid the congratulatory honking of my fans.

The thing is, we all lose our shit a bit, now and then, and just slip out of the tire ruts marked in the packed snow by the cars in front of you, and maybe we spin out a bit. The guy sitting in the front of the shitty car or amazon truck as it spins and he rages and maybe cries a little may be on an atypical day. Account for that in the calculations.

AWD just puts you further into the ditch.

Summer tires maybe?

Very good advice. In a pinch, wedging your car mats in front of your drive tires will also usually work. Saved me a couple of times. Could ruin the mats though.