Stupid human tricks on the freeway
It just rained here in southern California after a 180+ day dry spell. A guy in an A4 Quattro driving in the left(fast) lane a few cars ahead of me, I guess wanted to test his quattro prowess. He would go over the solid white line into the emergency lane to splash the standing water. Creating huge rooster tails each time, amusing. The last time he got into water too deep for 60+ MPH and started hydroplaning. Maybe it was the quattro system that saved him but the car went almost 90 degrees in both directions and then stabilized, like a pendulum very quickly coming to rest. I sped up to see this guys face after this experience, flushed and white-knuckled, he was now driving in the extreme right of his lane. AWD offers good traction but will not turn you into Niki Lauda.