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ESC helps in many easy situations but it also allows people to push their driving against the limits of their car. Now then, when ESC eventually fails to correc
by yason 15y ago
ESC helps in many easy situations but it also allows people to push their driving against the limits of their car. Now then, when ESC eventually fails to correct the vehicle's direction and and grip the crash that follows is usually much worse because there's nothing much that could be done within the laws of physics at that point. I see new cars with ESC at the roadbeds every winter, crashed to something.
Everything certainly comes in good and bad sides but I'm of the opinion that good driving skills and controlled handling of the vehicle in various abnormal situations is worth much more than ESC. I like to feel my car losing its grip and controllability, should that happen, at the point where I can still do something about it.
About 90% percent of driving skills is avoiding unexpected uncontrollable situations and the other 90% is about being able to handle them gracefully.
- Zak 15y agoI grew up in Alaska and saw this sort of thing every fall with four wheel drive. 4wd provides a significant advantage in acceleration on snowy/icy roads, but does not help a car to stop faster or, barring experience with rally driving techniques take a corner at higher speeds. People with 4wd would regularly get overconfident either due to the ease of acceleration or a mistaken belief that their cars could handle slippery corners better than others and end up in the ditch.