Stability control systems that sense impending rollovers and automatically brake individual wheels should become more common on SUVs.
The stability control and antilock braking systems kept wheels with no traction from spinning pointlessly.
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All-wheel-drive was optional, with seven airbags (including one at knee-height for the driver) and stability control standard.
Ferrari wanted the Sport setting to allow for some thrills before traction and stability control systems engage.
We have stability control to stop spinouts and rollovers and satellite radio with 100 stations and fresh programming.
Then the stability control will reprove you with a chorus of brake chattering.
"We don't have any specific research comparing SUVs with and without electronic stability control in winter-road conditions, " says Rader.
The stability control will help keep rich guys out of the hedges.
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Outside of wearing your seat belt, electronic stability control, or ESC, is now widely viewed as the biggest potential life-saver in an automobile.
Technology like electronic traction control and electronic stability control also add a degree of safety when putting high-powered vehicles like these on the street.
Since it reacts to input from its electronic stability control, it can even take into account wheel slippage in wet weather and adjust accordingly.
Electronic stability control can actually prevent accidents, reliably sensing and correcting a sudden loss of traction or control--something inexperienced drivers are least equipped to handle.
The big brakes, working with car's track-tuned ABS, the stability control and the fancy magnetic dampers' "body-control logic, " enable the F12 to perform truly miraculous feats of trail braking.
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In short, if you are not taking this car to the racetrack, you are going to be more concerned with other thing besides its super-powerful drivetrain, incredible stability control and near perfect handling.
Systems that monitor blind spots and track the alertness of drivers, and electronic stability control - which can detect and help prevent a skid - are already being introduced to many new vehicles.
All of the models in our list come with the requisite safety features, including multiple airbags as well as electronic stability control to prevent the car from fishtailing out of control in extreme or emergency handling situations.
The model I drove came loaded with heated and cooled front and rear leather seats, Bluetooth, Xenon headlamps, illuminated door plates, XM radio, stability control, lane departure warning, 19-inch alloy wheels, a sunroof, and park assistance with rearview camera.
Combined with standard stability control that uses the antilock braking system to keep the car headed in the direction you're steering, we found the W8 unstoppable, even during a near-whiteout snowstorm that had a lot of SUV drivers skidding all over the road.
"Additionally, a malfunctioning stop lamp switch may also result in intermittent operation of the push-button start feature, affect the operation of the brake-transmission shift interlock feature, preventing the shifter from being moved out of the park position and cause the Electronic Stability Control (ESC) malfunction light to illuminate, " stated NHTSA documents.
The GL offers standard crosswind stabilization and trailer-stability assist (both are overlays of the stability-control system).
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Say just one car's stability-control system is activated at an unusually slow speed on a highway off-ramp.
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We contrasted it with administrative characteristics: focused on predictability and stability, control of resources and risk, process is important, results are secondary.
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Like the V-Coupe's, the V-Wagon's stability-control system has a sport map, and once engaged, it makes it hilariously easy to rotate the car under power.
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Do we value stability and control, or evolution and learning?
Meanwhile, there's some code in the stability-control system dubbed Agile Handling Assist, through which the car, actively braking one of more wheels, helps drivers hold their line with smaller steering inputs.
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While there are differences of opinions regarding Georgia, Scheffer said member states "share common security interests, " including stability in Afghanistan, arms control, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and concerns over drug trafficking, piracy and terrorism.
Any network, especially one the size and scope of the internet, needs a centralized control mechanism for operational stability.
There was the same cascade of doom-and-gloom headlines when Slovakia initially balked at approving a deal to beef up the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to control the Greek debt crisis.
But its admonition on this point is general and couched as a task for the IMF and Financial Stability Forum, although neither has direct control over regulators.
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