text: These people who still support studded tire use should ask themselves why studs have been banned almost everywhere but Alaska.  It certainly cannot be said that other areas and jurisdictions do not have equally, or even greater, snowy and icy road conditions to contend with, yet they still do not use studs.  As I have never done, either, and I have lived and driven in Alaska for 20 years, and in northern climates for my entire life.