Dudes if you want safety and convenience, get out of that Camry and get on a bus! You shouldn’t be driving coz you are a hazard to the rest of us.

Everyone will be safer drivers out there if there was a hugh spike coming out from the steering columm instead of an airbag.

I have heard this before, when questioning why a colleague drives like a maniac (she obviously has not got the skill to handle the car the way she drives), “oh the car is safe, it have airbags”…begs the question “WTF” don’t it?

I take (or more like drag) my wife to the track and teach her how to handle the car on its limits, and put her through what amounts to a comprehensive defensive driving course. Makes her a better driver now that she know just how little control you have once over the limit.

Education and training is the key, not driving aids.

not to mention you can’t do powerslides without the steering wheel correcting you.

sigh, what happened to pure driving sensation.

but i know too many people who drive at crazy speeds in poor weather conditions, because they believe nothing will happen to them coz of all the fancy-shmancy driver aids they have in their cars, plus ncap 5 star ratings, and multiple air-bags.. that to me, is the wrong reason.

The great silent majority out there would think differently. I bet they’ll love to have this Park Assist, ABS, VSA, EBD and all those acronyms in their cars. Safety & convenience matter more to them than driving enjoyment.

Its called a “Driving Aid”.
ie…like hearing aid.
It helps drivers which lacks skill.

If your car slides around going downhill from genting during rainstorms only mean one thing, you were not a good judge of the driving conditions and vehicle/tyre capability.

A little rain and you need VSA? Try driving a high powered RWD car on ice and snow. For the record (and risk getting labled as a luddite) I hate driving aids, for what its worth i feel all these aids are intrusive and unpredictable. I have sampled BMWs active steering and traction control on a slalom course and don’t like it. Its horrible.

VSA jsut helps already bad drivers from getting into a mess, it doens’t make them better drivers, if anything, makes them worst…as the safety net just does nothing but gives them a false sense of security and encourages them to exceed the limit even more.

Have you drive your car down there when raining? Even you are slow your car will slip when going corners!

I have seen VSA activated in an Honda Civic and i know how it works. It really save your car from going sideways from left to right. Not only help your car to stabilize and also let you have more control of the car.

but if all these driver aids are used by drivers to avoid accidents, yes, i’m all for it. as a safety device, it gets my thumbs up.

if you need something like VSA to save you coz you’re going too fast in the rain while driving on genting roads, i’ll say thats the wrong reason. If you get into trouble coz you did something stupid, and have to depend on an electronic aid to save you, you’re probably not a really good driver to begin with.