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my understanding of the most common Bosch ECUs is that they cut the throttle if the brakes are applied while the throttle is open, but not if it is opened after the brake pedal is pressed. If my understanding is correct, then closing the throttle, braking, and rolling onto the throttle again to rev...

crr003 wrote:It's a bit different to turning off something that's provided as standard during normal driving?

Not in any practical sense, but it does allow for virtue signalling.

Would you refuse to drive a car without an electronic stability control system? No, but I wouldn't turn it off (on the road) if it had it. Same with ABS. AFAIK it's generally not possible to disable ABS except by pulling a fuse. I don't have a car with stability control but have found some that do ...

GTR1400MAN wrote:

Gareth wrote:Just the same as if the car didn't have DSC or ABS, one hopes, else it's a short step to disallowing driving cars to be driven without them fitted.

They are mandatory now.

Not sure what you're saying here. Would you refuse to drive a car without an electronic stability control system?

Maybe they never get activated in normal driving, but in today's litigious society, if one ended up in an RTC through no fault, I wonder how insurance companies would react if they found out DSC was switched off, or the ABS fuse was missing? Just the same as if the car didn't have DSC or ABS, one h...

'Lots of power' doesn't seem to come into it - the Ford Fiesta had it across the range from sometime in 2010.

crr003 wrote:driving around without DSC isn't too clever.

Most of us over a certain age have driven for many years without DSC. Is this the new normal, where drivers aren't deemed safe enough to do the driving unaided? I know it's the future, with autonomous mobility pods, but now?

martine wrote:what is the advantage of one-handed steering?

It enables a technique called pull-push steering

So you are continually braking? :( Or changing down to slow? :o If you don't like changing back from a cruising gear to a flexible gear, then you can be more true to Roadcraft by always staying in a flexible gear. That's the point we were making. Sorry, I completely misunderstood your point but, ev...

GTR1400MAN wrote:So you are continually braking? Or changing down to slow?

If you don't like changing back from a cruising gear to a flexible gear, then you can be more true to Roadcraft by always staying in a flexible gear.