Back then, could go to a salvage yard and buy good rims for two bucks a piece and mount studded snow tires. But when law said I had to remove the studs, were worse on ice than all season tires, so that was the end of that.
Cruze came with Continentals that were slipping and sliding all over the place, Goodyear Assurance tires sure took care of that. Didn't have brother switching off that traction control switch, that was more of hazard than anything else, tire would slip and kill the engine, what ahole thought this up?
Studded snow tires were blamed for huge hunks of concrete heaving up and breaking up asphalt. State of Minnesota after some odd 40 years of this BS did a study to learn that one ton of salt is costing 3,800 bucks in road damage besides rusting out our bridges. Not even mentioning causing us consumers billions of dollars with vehicle rust out. Brakes are the first thing to go with this dam salt.
Traction control and ABS is nothing short of a bad joke, will never replace studded snow tires and limited slip differentials. As far as road surface damage, main problem is 40 ton trucks. Another study was done, one truck causes more road surface wear than 10,000 passenger vehicles. But we still need those trucks for supplies.
What we really need is leaders with brains.