“The good winter drivers are the ones who stay at home. Generally, the problems are related to the drivers not giving themselves enough stopping distance, they’re driving far too fast and they’ve got the wrong tires.” Listen to the FULL podcast here.
Grant Gottgetreu on the Lynda Steele Show: Full Podcast
“There is an offence under the Motor Vehicle Act called slow driving. People don’t know that… It is a fine and 3 points… There’s a difference between slow driving and doing the speed limit. If you’re behind somebody and they’re doing 50 in a 50 zone, they’re not slow driving, they’re actually doing the speed limit… Slow driving is subjective by the police. You have to decide what your threshold is. Mine was 10 to 15 kms under the speed…
Grant Gottgetreu on Global BC News: new details and video in crash that killed taxi driver
Global News has obtained exclusive video of the moments before a speeding Car2Go slammed into a taxi, killing the cab driver. “When you’re travelling that fast, in that type of area, your depth perception and your reaction time is gone.” Watch the Global News story here.
Grant Gottgetreu on the Lynda Steele Show: A disclaimer on headlights and tail lights!
Grant Gottgetreu joins the Lynda Steele Show to talk about vehicle safety. “As soon as they introduced daytime running lights, that’s when the problem was created. They didn’t link the two. (Before we had) the daytime running lights your dashboard lights would be off. So people would clue in and go ‘wait a minute, I’ve got to turn my lights on, I can’t see my dashboard lights.’… But now the dashboard lights are on when the daytime running lights are…