They should make 4x4s compulsory.
Personal experience has convinced me that Winter tyres are essential. I wouldn't get out of my village if there was snow or ice on the road without them. In fact I struggled to even get off my sloping drive onto the public road with Summer tyres if there was half an inch of snow down!
I know all the logistical problems of storage and additional costs to the car owner but surely the costs to the public purse, the deaths and injuries, the delays etc etc must outweigh those personal costs!
That doesn't even factor in the cost of salt gritting, and the associated rusty damage to vehicles and deterioration of the roads and general environmental impact.
I thought that with all the talk about global warming...melting of the ice caps...milld winters and the like...that we wouldn't need snow tyres anymore...that we would be walking around only wearing sun cream and flip flops..