Invasive creature or standard feature? Small cars and VSC, ABS, and traction control

[silver_echo]

Originally Posted by gokartride

Extremely valid points you make and yet, given the documented safety benefit, how could they not make it standard? Not there isn't a down side...but in the end it'd be hard for the gov to ignore possible safety improvement at moderate cost.

you ever used a car with abs in snow? when you have a car in snow/ice that has abs, you quickly learn the term anything but stop... but abs is not my peeve with this... it is the trac and stability spidered into it... i can readily understand the need for abs, as it lets you steer... but trac and stability have their places, and there are times when you need to be able to turn them off(i.e. a dyno for tuning, some emissions testing locations)...