one advantage of FWD is when encountering those slush troughs on the highways, especially when changing lanes. If you hit one of these at highway speeds, you can spin your car, which is a very dangerous situation.

One should naturally steer into the spin. With a RWD car, one should lift off the gas, and if the car has a manual transmission, the engine braking should help resist the spin; the driver pretty much has to ride it out and wait for the car to stabilize itself.

With a FWD car, the driver has the additional option of applying power with the wheels pointing in the right direction to correct the spin. This reaction however, has to be learned, and I have yet to hear about a driving school teaching this - all they teach is steering into the skid direction, without regard for the drive type of the vehicle. I often see races of FWD sport sedans where the car gets into a seemingly hopeless spin, but miraculously recovers because the driver applies more power.

Cars with stability control systems have an additional margin of safety, but one must familiarize oneself with how the car reacts in such situations.