# Is VSA in Honda good for driving in the snow?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-vsa-in-honda-good-for-driving-in-the-snow/30557>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [May 16, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-vsa-in-honda-good-for-driving-in-the-snow/30557 "2009-05-16T19:24:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-vsa-in-honda-good-for-driving-in-the-snow/30557/21 "2009-05-18T21:13:38Z")

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“So you don’t have to go to work when it snows?”

Forgot to mention I bike to work ~1mi. I walk it on snow days.

## Back when I drove to work ~21mi here in the DC area we’d get maybe one big winter storm a year that would keep my FWD car off the road for 1-2 days.

There’s a grocery and drug store 6 blocks away I can walk to. Anything else I can blow off for a day or two.

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**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-vsa-in-honda-good-for-driving-in-the-snow/30557/22 "2009-05-19T01:08:29Z")

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If I were in your shoes, I would be shopping for a car instead of an SUV. They are harder to roll. I would also get something with VSA (or its equivalent ASM- automatic stability management).

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**Author:** ![Xebadaih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d07c76/32.png) [@Xebadaih](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Xebadaih)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-vsa-in-honda-good-for-driving-in-the-snow/30557/23 "2009-05-19T03:13:00Z")

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At the risk of offending you…I think you are wrong. Acceleration is not a safety feature. If you find yourself in icy/snowy conditions, trying to get ahead of everyone else is a good way to cause a pileup.

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**Author:** ![twotone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@twotone](https://community.cartalk.com/u/twotone)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/is-vsa-in-honda-good-for-driving-in-the-snow/30557/24 "2009-05-19T04:15:11Z")

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Tires are 98% of winter driving. Four REAL WINTER TIRES (e.g. Blizzaks) NOT all-season tires are the key to winter driving and more important than AWD or 4WD. I’d drive my RWD BMW with four good winter tires over a Subaru with all-season tires any winter.

Twotone

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