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Generaldeveloper identity in crisis: hare today if you can jump high enough, laid-off tomorrow ? Pin
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GeneralIt snowed last night ... Pin
OriginalGriff17-Jan-23 22:51
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... and it's still snowing now. Plus, they don't appear to have gritted the streets at all - they may be striking, I dunno. About an inch, maybe two had settled all over the roads.

But ... Taking herself to work today, I was a little nervous - it's the first time I've driven a DCT car on snow, and I wasn't sure how well it would work. The first thing I found was that even in "fully manual" mode, it won't let me select 2nd gear to pull away.
So I put it back to "Eco", stuck it in drive and set off. It did very well - as well as I'd have done if I had any control over the clutch, and quite possibly better! You could feel the traction control doing it's thing when turning into junctions, but no slides, not nothing.

When we got to her work, I wasn't sure how it would work: there is a hill at the exit and it was well covered. It did fine - even when a car came along so I had to stop on the hill and do a hill start on snow it wasn't phased. And that's on "normal street tires".

OK, colour me impressed with the gearbox software: it knows what it is doing, probably better than I do, so I'll maybe trust it rather more. Still follow the golden rules though: slow and careful, good braking distance, don't mix inputs*.
Enough other idiots out there just slamming the pedal to the metal and praying they don't hit anything ... Big Grin | :-D


* accelerate, steer, or brake, don't do two at a time
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