Driving advice

Heard on Sky News this morning from a driving expert from the AA - "If your car gets stuck then use the floor mats under the wheels to gain traction and get under way again".

Great advice, unless you think about it. A rubber tyre on ice has little traction as we all know, a tyre on a mat will have greater traction than on ice, obvious ennit? Now interpose said mat between tyre and ice and try to drive off . Assuming that the scheme works and you are moving then how do you retrieve the mat? Obvious, stop, get out put mat back in car and drive away. Ah, problem - no grip so get out put mat under wheel again ... ad infinitum.

Reality - tyre grips mat which slips on ice thus propelling it rearwards at some rate of knots into the air landing down the road a few yards.  If everyone tried this the road would look like a demonstration of flying carpets in Baghdad :lol:

Great theory but it does not work. How do I know? Just trust me on this one ...