It snowed!

[eppie]

I see a lot of people in this thread saying that you need snow tires or studs or even chains to drive safely in winter conditions. You do not. You just need to be mindful of how your vehicle reacts in snow and adjust your driving accordingly. Slow the hell down and give yourself tons of error space.

Although you are technically right, where I live you can't give yourself 'tons of error space' usually.
If you are driving almost alone on a country road yes, but in a metropolitan area with a million inhabitants it is a different thing.
Here in sweden winter tires are compulsory by the way. But as I said before, apart from the high north, in most bigger towns local governments try to ban studded tires on cars (some streets through town are off limit if you have studded tires on your car).

And also as a response to Pete.....; indeed you don't need to be able to drive a care in order to be allowed to do so.
Swedes are not very good drivers, and still the choose to drive very big cars (they are very much like americans or canadians I think), and usually they also like to use their phones while driving.....I am happy that at least they use winter tires. If only they would also start using their indicator lights and their side and rear view mirrors.