I don't like AWD or 4WD. It gives people the illusion that they're in better control than they are. Around here you can just look in the ditches and see what cars are in the ditches; there are a significantly higher percentage of 4WD and AWD cars in the ditch than 2WD. That's because the 2WD people realize that they have to slow the heck down. The AWD/4WD people need to too, but they don't.

A couple of days ago here there was a 10 car pileup caused by one car swerving to avoid a kid walking to a school bus stop on the side of the road. Clearly, most people are going way too fast; it's the ONLY excuse for a multi-car pileup where all the cars are going in the same direction. This was on a 50 MPH road; I'd say the max SAFE speed on that day was about 20, maybe less, but most people were going 40.

People are WAY too confident in their vehicles. I think in some ways things were safer when we had crappier cars that barely ran in these conditions.