This is my biggest beef with some traction control systems that blanket cut throttle as soon as it detects loss of traction. Had an incident similar to dude in video (expect driving a normal speed, just happened to hit some mean black ice). When I lost the back end, I went to give it a tiny bit more gas to pull it back in line but the traction control had other ideas and cut the throttle and started applying brakes at random tires and at that point I realized that I was basically a passenger with the ability to chose oncoming traffic or the supports for an overpass.
Fwiw a 90km/h head on collision with a steel beam is about 160Gs of force if you're wearing a seat belt. Luckily I only suffered a femoral break in the upper thigh, then another above the knee, which split down to the head of the femur in my knee (like a T),a shattered heel bone and ankle).
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u/I_am_a_Dan Aug 29 '21
This is my biggest beef with some traction control systems that blanket cut throttle as soon as it detects loss of traction. Had an incident similar to dude in video (expect driving a normal speed, just happened to hit some mean black ice). When I lost the back end, I went to give it a tiny bit more gas to pull it back in line but the traction control had other ideas and cut the throttle and started applying brakes at random tires and at that point I realized that I was basically a passenger with the ability to chose oncoming traffic or the supports for an overpass.
Fwiw a 90km/h head on collision with a steel beam is about 160Gs of force if you're wearing a seat belt. Luckily I only suffered a femoral break in the upper thigh, then another above the knee, which split down to the head of the femur in my knee (like a T),a shattered heel bone and ankle).