1996 Chevrolet Corvette Owner's Manual - Page 186

Driving on Snow or Ice Most of the time, those places where your tires the meet road probably have good traction. However, if there is snow or ice between your tires and the Whatever the condition -- smooth ice, packed, blowing or loose snow -- drive with caution. road, you can have a very slippery situation. You'll have a lot less traction or "grip" and will need to be very careful. Keep your ASR system on.It improves your ability to accelerate when driving on a slippery road.Even though your vehicle has the ASR system, you'll want to slow down and adjust yourdriving to the roadconditions. See "ASR System" in the Index. Your anti-lock brakes improve your vehicle's stability when you make a hard stop on a slippery road. Even though you have the anti-lock braking system, you'll want to begin stoppingsooner than you would on dry pavement. See "Anti-Lock" in the Index. Allow greater foliowing distance on any slippery road. Watch for slippery spots. The road might be fine until you hit a spot that's covered with On an ice. otherwise clear road, ice patches may appear in shaded areas where the sun can't reach: around clumps of trees, behind buildingsor under bridges. Sometimes the surface of acurve or an overpass may What's the worst time for this? "Wet ice." Very cold remain icy when the surroundingroads are clear. If snow or ice can be slick and hard to drive But wet on. you see a patch of ice ahead of you, brake before you ice can be even more trouble because may offer the it are on it. Try not to brake while you're actually on least traction of all. the ice, and avoid sudden steering maneuvers. You can get wet ice when it's about freezing OF; OOC) (32 and freezing rain begins to Try to avoid driving on fall. wet ice until salt and sand crews can get there. 4-25