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According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, electronic stability control is the most important technology since seat belts. Yet, as recently as a
by vlad 17y ago
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, electronic stability control is the most important technology since seat belts.
Yet, as recently as a couple of years ago, the Volkswagen Rabbit (Golf) was the only car under $20,000 I could find with the option, other than Suzuki. As an example, the Honda Civic did not have it, and you had to buy an Accord or an SUV to get Honda's version of it.
An electronic stability system "makes the vehicle go where you're pointing it by applying the (computer-assisted) brakes. I think this is definitely a milestone." This includes driving on ice, or making tight turns (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-hHWSQhKuc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-hHWSQhKuc)
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/13/MNG7UJD1451.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/...
- CamperBob 17y agoThere are some really interesting risks associated with electronic stability control, though. One system used by GM on the Corvette works by comparing the input from an inertial yaw sensor to the current steering-wheel angle. Any disagreement results in selective application of braking at one or more wheels, as needed to make the two sensors agree. Now: what happens when one of those sensors fails? http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-tech-performance/2336065-service-active-handling-consumer-action.html http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-tech-performance/2336065-... I wish I could find the video I saw earlier, where a Z06 doing about 90 MPH did a hard right turn into the wall at a drag strip for no apparent reason. I don't know with any certainty that the active-handling system was at fault in that incident, but it was enough to turn me off of the technology in a 500+ HP car.