My old car used to have electronic stability control and it saved me clearly two times. One time i was about to fish-tail into oncoming traffic on a curvy road, i dont remember the other. So I guess its good if you have stability control and its saves trauma.
My car had some sort of brake assist also, ABS/ES system used to detect any panic stop braking and put the maximum braking force so car stopped faster. I remember that kicked in many times, I dont think i was about to get in accident. Human body can not put this much braking force. My car used to stop in slightly more than 110 feet 60-0 MPH. its something like 100-0 KMPH in 40 meters.
People talk a lot about accidents but they dont realize the value of safety equipment/precautions. Because nobody remembers an accident avoided, most of the time people dont realize that they have been saved.
I found it funny that it hardly cost anything extra to add these features to ABS but still we dont have these system in most of indian cars. I was reading somwhere that it cost around 10000 to add these, though this is cost of system, final selling price may be higher. |