Electronic Stability Control Law passed in US!!

ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!

Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding

or as the kids call it, DRIFT


will we have a switch, where we can turn it off?

I love my rear wheel drive car, where the back wheel lose a little
traction, but the front wheels can still steer.

In article . com>, Richard Herb wrote:
> ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
>
> Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
>
> or as the kids call it, DRIFT
>
>
> will we have a switch, where we can turn it off?
>
> I love my rear wheel drive car, where the back wheel lose a little
> traction, but the front wheels can still steer.
>

Cite?

Brent P wrote:
> In article . com>, Richard Herb wrote:
>> ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
>>
>> Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
>>
>> or as the kids call it, DRIFT
>>
>>
>> will we have a switch, where we can turn it off?
>>
>> I love my rear wheel drive car, where the back wheel lose a little
>> traction, but the front wheels can still steer.
>>
>
> Cite?
>
>
This was on the news a couple of months back.

In article >, jcr wrote:
> Brent P wrote:
>> In article . com>, Richard Herb wrote:
>>> ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
>>>
>>> Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
>>>
>>> or as the kids call it, DRIFT
>>>
>>>
>>> will we have a switch, where we can turn it off?
>>>
>>> I love my rear wheel drive car, where the back wheel lose a little
>>> traction, but the front wheels can still steer.
>>>
>>
>> Cite?
>>
>>
> This was on the news a couple of months back.

Yet google is not turning up any such law being passed when I looked
earlier.

In further searching I've found a reference in a UK paper about NHSTA
wanting to make it manditory in 2012.

Another victory in building a better idiot and tests designed around CR's
attempts to ruin a vehicle they don't like.

Richard Herb wrote:

> ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
>
> Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
>
> or as the kids call it, DRIFT

With RWD cars ? LMAO !

Graham

On May 25, 8:49 pm, Eeyore >
wrote:
> Richard Herb wrote:
> > ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
>
> > Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
>
> > or as the kids call it, DRIFT
>
> With RWD cars ? LMAO !

well, powersliding with front wheel drive seems kind of stupid. The
wheels that lose traction are the same ones that steer.

When I do it with my rear wheel drive, I am in almost complete
control.

Richard Herb > wrote in
oups.com:

> On May 25, 8:49 pm, Eeyore >
> wrote:
>> Richard Herb wrote:
>> > ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
>>
>> > Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
>>
>> > or as the kids call it, DRIFT
>>
>> With RWD cars ? LMAO !
>
> well, powersliding with front wheel drive seems kind of stupid. The
> wheels that lose traction are the same ones that steer.
>
> When I do it with my rear wheel drive, I am in almost complete
> control.
>
>
>

AFAIK,drifters use RWD or AWD cars.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

On May 25, 7:58 pm, Scott en Aztlán > wrote:
> Richard Herb > said in rec.autos.driving:
>
> >ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
>
> >Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
>
> >or as the kids call it, DRIFT
>
> >will we have a switch, where we can turn it off?
>
> My car does. It also has a medium setting called "competitive driving
> mode."
> --
> MFFYCam Videos Galohttp://www.geocities.com/mffycam/

Ford 500 has an on/off switch. Dunno why as the car is a 'geezer' car
and I don't think you could make it exciting to drive short of driving
off a cliff.

Harry K

On May 25, 8:49 pm, Eeyore >
wrote:

>
> With RWD cars ? LMAO !
>
> Graham

Drift can be done with FWD cars when you have a really strong parking
brake that applies only to the rear wheels.


to everyone else, Graham is a fwd loving idiot that is very afraid of
leaving the house. he stays inside in his mother's basement and only
ventures out when the weather is perfect. he tried a rear wheel drive
vehicle once. it almost scared him and he decided to never drive a
real car ever again!
ESPECIALLY NOT DRIVE ANYTHING WITH MORE THAN 35 HORSEPOWER THAT WILL
DELIVER ALL OF THAT AWESOME POWER TO ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE FRONT
TIRES.

bob z.
ps bob z. doesn't understand the whole 'drifting' phenomenom, but
doesn't understand the love-affair with FWD, either.

Brent P wrote:
> In article >, jcr wrote:
>> Brent P wrote:
>>> In article . com>, Richard Herb wrote:
>>>> ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
>>>>
>>>> Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
>>>>
>>>> or as the kids call it, DRIFT
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> will we have a switch, where we can turn it off?
>>>>
>>>> I love my rear wheel drive car, where the back wheel lose a little
>>>> traction, but the front wheels can still steer.
>>>>
>>> Cite?
>>>
>>>
>> This was on the news a couple of months back.
>
> Yet google is not turning up any such law being passed when I looked
> earlier.
>
> In further searching I've found a reference in a UK paper about NHSTA
> wanting to make it manditory in 2012.
>
> Another victory in building a better idiot and tests designed around CR's
> attempts to ruin a vehicle they don't like.
>
>
I believe it was a NHTSA "rule".