2010 Corvette ZR1 - Performance Traction Management
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You could actually design unstable cars that would go around corners faster with tech like this...you could also have much more power...especially when you get electric cars with instant torque. This is going to really open the possibilities up. One day we will tell our kids how we actually had to drive cars around corners...kind of like the difference between a Cessna and an F-16.
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Will not take the rush out...just allow you to go a lot faster if this is leading to where I think it is leading. The current cars were designed around conventional driving dynamics, conventional physics and ppl doing all of the driving...in 5 or 10 yrs there will be cars designed from the outset to be driven by wire...aka designed to go faster and handle in a manner that you and I cannot control...but above the capabilities anyone could do conventionally. Sure we will lament it...but this will change things for the best...if the best means going faster
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Definitely not. Just like a car being faster doesn't necessarily make it more fun. Call me crazy, but a sports/sporty car just isn't the same to me unless there are 3 pedals. I do find it a bit ironic that a lot of the people that always complain about some new cars "driving themselves" have nearly-stock cars with big stall automatics and bigs/littles with drag radials.
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Definitely not. Just like a car being faster doesn't necessarily make it more fun. Call me crazy, but a sports/sporty car just isn't the same to me unless there are 3 pedals. I do find it a bit ironic that a lot of the people that always complain about some new cars "driving themselves" have nearly-stock cars with big stall automatics and bigs/littles with drag radials.
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ha true, but i think you know what i was getting at. if the feature was not there, then if you jumped into a car without it, you'd still have the same amount of skill you started with 9basically). but i understand what you are saying, and from that perspective, yes, it does. as long as its got an off switch, its fine by me not that ill own one in the near future or anything.