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Originally Posted by Frost
I'm kinda shocked at home many people replying to this post keep insisting traction control systems make them worse drivers. If you are on public roads, I don't see any single CONCRETE counterpoint as to how traction control doesn't help you. I've seen:
1- TRAC doesn't let you accelerate heavily off the line. Why are you doing this on public roads? This ain't no drag strip.
2- TRAC doesn't straighten out the car properly on a fishtail. Why were you fishtailing in the first place? Probably because you were driving too fast? I'd really like to know. I've fishtailed in FWD, RWD and AWDs before and all were because I misjudged the situation. All 100% driver fault or at least majority driver fault and I'm a better driver now because I know it as opposed to say "well, it was the CPU error".
That's a load of crap guys / gals. If you don't admit a mistake, you'll never learn.
On the track however, TRAC is annoying since you ARE trying to go to 10/10ths of the limit and that's about the only time I would even think let alone suggest turning it off. People are in such a hurry to prove they are good drivers they forget to drive in the first place.
The racing motto: "To finish first you must first finish" always applies.
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I know that primitive VSC systems in older cars had a lag time that you could get ahead of and cause MORE problems than an inexperienced driver who would just freeze up.
I had an 01 4Runner that would kick in VSC a second or so AFTER you had corrected a skid and sent you skidding in the opposite direction. Which was really frightening because the VSC-induced pants crapping would happen when you thought you alread had already regained control of the truck.
Good times.