Originally Posted by astroflyer

Actually, out of curiosity, I wonder if it's easier to drive a plane on a runway in bad weather than a car. The problem with cars is that the wheels are also producing the force to move the car. Here, turning could be accomplished at least partially with differential thrust alone, no?

Maybe a pilot can enlighten me

Originally Posted by Biginch

eliminating the power from the wheels does eliminate one hazard, but the tires still need traction to cause 100,000+lbs of aircraft to change directions.

either way, they incident report will read "pilot error".