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ESP works magic because it can do things that a human physically isn't allowed to do, namely "stop this one wheel from spinning faster than the others". Incide
by semi-extrinsic 8y ago
ESP works magic because it can do things that a human physically isn't allowed to do, namely "stop this one wheel from spinning faster than the others".
Incidentally, if you've ever tried driving on snow/ice/mud in a 4x4 car with fully locking differentials, you have a completely mechanical solution that beats ESP.
And FWIW, Swedish insurance agency research pointed out last year that cars with permanent 4x4 and ESP were up to 40% more likely to get into severe accidents in bad conditions, because the driver does not get the "hey, this road is slippery, better slow down" experience, so they go too fast for the prevailing conditions.
http://feed.ne.cision.com/wpyfs/00/00/00/00/00/3E/5A/A2/wkr0011.pdf http://feed.ne.cision.com/wpyfs/00/00/00/00/00/3E/5A/A2/wkr0...
- kwhitefoot 8y agoThat made interesting reading. It would have been even more interesting if they had also divided the population of cars by the drivers sex and age. At least here in Norway it is very much the case that accidents are more frequent and more severe when a young man is driving. Also I suspect that women on average are more likely to drive a two wheel drive car. My point is that we might find that four wheel drive cars driven by women are as safe or safer than two wheel drive cars driven by women and that the worsening of safety for four wheel drive driven by young men is even more dramatic than the study showed.