# First snow of the season **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-season/561334 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [November 20, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-season/561334 "2010-11-20T15:22:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 23
### Author: ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons) #### Post date: [November 20, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-season/561334/23 "2010-11-20T23:50:59Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The Prius’s wheels are driven by electric motors. As part of the traction system, if a wheel begins to slip power is shut down to it. You can see the problem. I can, but I have what is probably a dumb question: is there any way to override that “shutdown on slippage”? It seems a silly feature to have on a car that will be used in cold climes; I wonder why the Prius engineers would include something like that if they expected sales in places that experienced winter. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-snow-of-the-season/561334)._