Use electricity to melt snow and that electricity and heat contributes to climate change which makes snow worse and then you use more electricity and heat and then…
Except that in this example it really would solve the problem for good by increasing global temperatures until your driveway would never be cool enough to accumulate snow
And the stormwater disruption releasing warm water into streams and rivers early, sometimes triggering eggs/insects/other critters to come out before their food sources are ready and basically starving them out.
1k ft. resistive wire (enough for one wire every 4 cm): $270 (approximate, I have no idea what gauge and resistivity you would need)
Honestly the amazon listing is not as bad of a deal as I was expecting. You could probably make it a lot cheaper but it would take forever and probably be significantly lower quality.