The only damage that I had on black ice was some slight scrapes on my motorcycle's chrome mufflers, and nothing like the major road rash and torn up clothing once one comes back onto the more abrasive pavement after leaving the oil slick, (diesel fuel spill in a turn on one occasion, and first rain after a long dry summer on another, which is not as near a problem with today's cars leaking a lot less oil than their vintage counterparts.)