Repair-It

It's not that I don't believe in stability control, but how do you create a world where people who are genuinely driving safely and have a good grasp on vehicle dynamics, can be protected with these systems, while still incentivizing others to not over drive the car? That's the catch-22 here. I mean, we're car people, but it's sad that I'm in the minority when I regularly put my car into a drift on snow just to keep my RWD skills sharp. I've actually really become attuned and have figured out where regular people go wrong. When you are counter steering, you need to have a sense for when the rear is going to regain traction and IMMEDIATELY uncorrect. If you are still counter-steered when the rear suddenly regains traction, guess what: you do what 99% of uninformed motorists do which is go into a spin in the opposite direction, weave around a bit, and lose it. Doesn't have to happen.

Phanatic n' Philly wrote on 02/11/2015 at 05:55 PM

"Even with this advanced system the variable is human input"

Sadly improving driver skill is political suicide in this country. People have been bred that A) driving is a right and B) they can do whatever and the gov't will come to the rescue and make those greedy OEMs make safer vehicles.

Argument B) is actually quite a debate because safety has improved by orders of magnitude over the decades. How much is enough? The answer seems to be, there is no limit. The goal is 100% autonomy, eliminating completely the human factor to vehicle operation. And most people will rejoice because they can finally eat that burger without having to look up even once.

I suppose this is what it takes to keep commuters from spinning a sharp steering and handling FWD car with bad weight distribution.