Comment by KaiserPro
15 hours ago
These are all valid questions
but:
> Depends on how many more accidents worse-gripping tires cause
The US has an unusually high number of road deaths: https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/media/releases/2016/p070... and a lot of them are preventable. 1% less traction (or what ever it might be) is unlikely to be as bad compared to drink driving or not using seatbelts.
Valid point, I will grant that. It's also entirely possible that accidents due to less grippy tires are not evenly distributed (for example, due to climate or geography) and that slightly worse traction is less of a problem for most of California's urban population in particular.