[R.S-HawK]

Originally Posted by Ganthrithor

I mean, you *can* drive in the wet on the stock tyres, but only if you want to kick back and take things real slow (including leaving much bigger gaps in front of you for stopping). I wouldn't recommend it though. The stock tyres make it easy to slide around in the rain (which can be fun), but given that you might encounter a situation where you'd need to stop quickly, I'd say getting rid of the stock tyres is a good idea if you live somewhere wet. You can't in good conscience say that the stockers perform well in the wet: they let go with very little prompting and don't slide progressively at all. It's like trying to drive on summer slicks in the snow: maybe you can do it and get where you want to go if you drive like grandma, but it's not a good idea.

Also you shouldn't be "relying" on the nannies: with the exception of braking individual wheels the nannies can't do anything you can't do as the driver. It's not like you're going to be able to cheat physics because you left the computers on. There's no reason not to just fit a tyre that actually generates grip instead of hoping the computer can drive a lot better than you can.

Well said.