Ice

For those of you fortunate enough to live in areas that don't experience ice on the roads, the following videos may be amusing . . .

This is a home video taken in Portland, Oregon (H/T to "JtMc"):

The combination of slick ice, overlaid with powdery snow, on what is apparently a fairly steep hillside leads to GTA-like antics. Except these are real drivers in real cars. Ouch!

This one is in Tennessee (H/T to Den Lippert):

This is more typical black ice driving . . . the road surface looks a bit damp, but there's not enough advance warning that it's ice, and the "instinctive" reactions of some drivers actually make the situation worse. Top it off with a DOT vehicle making the situation worse by directing traffic into the danger area, and you've got the makings of some hot and juicy lawsuits.