Joseph Volk wrote:
Another trick is to carry around 20 or so 3' sections of clothes line. Car gets stuck, you get out tie the clothes lines around the tire, and instant traction. Once you get unstuck, take a knife cut the rope off and drive on. This works incredibly well in most cars, but you do have to carefull and make sure the rope clears everything on the inside of the wheel. (brakes, vehicle speed sensors, et al)
Boy, and I thought I knew every winter driving stuck car trick in the book! That's a good one! I always carried around a couple of the sample rug pieces, the carpet stores would give them away or sell them for a 1.00 when a color or pattern was discontinued. I'd shove one back side down under the wheel that was spinning on the ice. Had to be a little careful tho as sometimes it would come shooting out the back and could bowl over a helper pushing. I used the put it in second and get out to push trick a couple times myself.
If you have hard polished or wet ice, it doesn't much matter what kind of tires (except studded) you have. The coefficient of friction between cold rubber and ice is nearly zero.
Chuck, who did a fine one man luge impression all the way down his ice covered driveway to the street without a sled this morning when his rubber soled shoes broke traction.
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The wood shoots out at Mach 1 and he ends up needing a good bit of surgery to put his lower leg/foot back together again. 
