Did anyone hear on the news today that they are thinking of making a law that it will be punishable for people who drive with snow on their cars? I guess the snow flies off their cars which in turn hits other cars and causes damage. What will they think of next?

Yes, and I think it was Jim Tedisco who was pushing this through.

The major problem with the new law is it doesn't apply to the big trucks that have more ice and snow on them than cars do.

This is by far the most ridiculous law I have ever heard. What the heck are the senior citizens supposed to do who don't have garages or the ability to clean off the roof of their car? Or what about young girls who get out of work at night during or after a snow storm....are they supposed to hang around at night in a parking lot to make sure every little bit of snow is off their car? Give me a break. And shadow, you are correct, what about those damn tractor trailers?

I don't know the answer Bum but I don't care to be killed because of someone elses negligence.  I was driving down 890 earlier in the week and a huge piece of hard packed snow/ice came off the top of a minivan and smack into the middle of my windshield.  It happened so fast that it startled me and caused me to swerve.  No harm done, but it happens way too often.  I'm sorry for seniors, I'm sorry for young women who work late but should I risk paying the price?

If they can't clean the top of their cars, how do they clean off the windows and the hood?  It doesn't take that much more work just to do the top.

But, it is very highly unlikely that ice and snow will blow of a car.  Especially the mini vans because their roofs are tilted ever so slightly to the front.  Believe me, we have been a two mini van family for close to 20 years.  Snow always slips down on the front windshield, you can cause that to happen if you can't reach the top to brush it off, which is generally the case, I mean who carries a ladder with them in the car to climb up and clean it off while in the parking lot at work or shopping.  You can cause it to happen by stopping suddenly, go find the nearest parking lot and do it there.  

But I do agree about the trucks, they are the dangerous ones.  Snow/ice off a car cannot travel far, gravity will not allow that to happen. If it does happen to fly, it can only happen at faster speeds like a highway, and if you are that close to the car in front of you, on a highway, then you are tailgating probably.   But higher up in the air and there's something I can't remember what it's called but something about the back of a big truck.  Like if you drive close to them you use less gas.  But the snow and ice off the top of a big truck will stay in the air much longer because of that force of physics and therefore travel more possibly and theremore more likely to hit a car well behind the truck

I agree with you MC1. I do the 'slam on the brake' thing too. IT REALLY WORKS!

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Snow/ice off a car cannot travel far, gravity will not allow that to happen. If it does happen to fly, it can only happen at faster speeds like a highway, and if you are that close to the car in front of you, on a highway, then you are tailgating probably.   But higher up in the air and there's something I can't remember what it's called but something about the back of a big truck.  Like if you drive close to them you use less gas.  But the snow and ice off the top of a big truck will stay in the air much longer because of that force of physics and therefore travel more possibly and theremore more likely to hit a car well behind the truck

Either one is called tailgatng, but in the world of NASCAR, it's called drafting, and yes, it does save gas, as proven by tests by the MythBusters.

I think 3 inches off the back bumper is ample space, don't you?   Seriously, for those of you who think your mini van sheds ALL its ice and snow via the front should have been behind this one.  By the way, I'm not a moron, I was NOT tailgating.  Had I been, I would probably not have mentioned this.  Jeez!!

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Yes, and I think it was Jim Tedisco who was pushing this through.

Nah, the insurance companies are....oh, wait,,,,dont they have big lobby groups????

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I don't know the answer Bum but I don't care to be killed because of someone elses negligence.  I was driving down 890 earlier in the week and a huge piece of hard packed snow/ice came off the top of a minivan and smack into the middle of my windshield.  It happened so fast that it startled me and caused me to swerve.  No harm done, but it happens way too often.  I'm sorry for seniors, I'm sorry for young women who work late but should I risk paying the price?

Yup....we all do....dont keep me safe with rediculous laws.....SHOW ME THE STATS......this is America

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Yup....we all do....dont keep me safe with rediculous laws.....SHOW ME THE STATS......this is America

6'' of snow followed by freezing rain and then freezing nite time temps and you have some iced glazed sheets flying around + ignorant car owners who just dont care = trouble-

But we dont need a LAW just people who CARE

No law against standing up in a canoe-
No law against running with scizzors
No law against farting in elevators
No law against fat people wearing tank/tube tops either

Common sense should rule-

BINGO!!! and that is why this is America and we are our brothers keeper...the cross we bear is the crucifixion of our own flesh not the troubled child, not the disease we live with, not the drug addicted parent etc etc.......personal responsibility/accountability/self-control/discipline is the cross we bear.....if our neighbor asked for a loaf of bread would we give them a stone???

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personal responsibility/accountability/self-control/discipline is the cross we bear

If the minivan driver I referred to earlier had any of these traits a ridiculous law would not have to be created. Legislation against stupidity.

Rene, there's no cure for stupid.