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Originally Posted by simongym
There is very little benefit in ANY situation for shifting into neutral, regardless of transmission type.
And of all possibilities, black ice is the absolute LAST situation I would ever use neutral for. Lower your speed if you know ice may be present, use lower gears, and stay alert. Neutral would take away your ability to steer out of a skid upon regaining traction with the road surface.
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The issue here is inadvertently finding that the car is locked in neutral at speed. I just tossed out black ice as an example, but generally I agree that there is almost no situation where I would deliberately shift into neutral at speed. But it came to mind because I might want to manually downshift on black ice, and certainly couldn't hit the brake to escape neutral.