Why do people always try to combat the wheels spinning by accelerating more????
Because 99% of drivers are complete ******* with no desire to actually improve their driving. They get in and drive. They have little to no idea of how the various parts of the car actually work, and their ****** brains simply think "accellerator makes you go, if your not going, press the accellerator more"
Snow driving isnt actually taught to anyone, its something you need to work out for yourself by reading, learning, practicing etc.
We made the mistake of taking the FWD up a slightly less used road last year in the bad snow, and were doing fine, until on approach to a blind crest dawn saw something coming and stood on the brakes. Now i'd taken the time to explain to dawn about driving smoothly, using higher than normal gears to keep the revs down etc etc, and she'd got all that down to a T, unfortunately she'd now stopped on a hill, and a pretty steep one at that, a few yards away from a blind-crested single lane hump back bridge. No amount of feathering the thorttle and using 2nd was going to get the car moving again, especially as she was having to hold it on the handbrake to stop it rolling back into the growing queue of cars behind her, and the front tyres were nearly-worn-out Eagle F1's.
At this point the cars behind all decided that the best course of action was full throttle wheelspintastic overtake meer yards from said blind bridge (which somehow actually worked for them), so we waited for them to feck off, then i got out and with me pushing and dawn feathering the clutch in second managed to get some forward motion. Still managed to nearly get taken out by a van who stopped at the other side when he saw us coming, then after waiting for about 3 seconds decided we were approaching too slowly for him, and blasted across the bridge missing us by inches.
I took the opportunity afterwards to explain to dawn that you should NEVER stop on a hill unless you really cant help it
Been grinning whilst passing stranded beemers and mercs even overtook a land rover disco yesterday going up a hill, to say he wasn't amused is an understatement 
