YOUR SAY: Electronic Stability Control

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I'm doing a univeristy piece on stability control in cars and am interested in hearing your thoughts, opinions or stories.

For me personally there was one situation that confirmed stability control as a good thing.

I was probably going too fast.
It was late at night, on a road I’d driven every day for years, with a car that was capable of far more than I was asking of it. By the time I saw gravel spilled across the surface I had run out of options.
Afraid of destabilising the car halfway around a quick corner, I didn’t slam the brakes.
The car hit the gravel and I felt the rear start to swing around,
It was time to make a decision.
I could counter-steer and catch the slide on my own, or trust the car’s Electronic Stability Control to do the job.
I didn’t move the steering wheel or touch the brakes, but sat mesmerised as the car sorted itself out with a wink of yellow light from the dashboard.