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Old 01-24-2008, 09:03 AM
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Ive been waiting for months for some accident to highlight the defficiencies in ESP. Thankfully, the first major one came under the controlled circumstances of COTY. Its one thing to bang-on about the life saving abilities of these systems when in the hands of inexperienced drivers, but these systems arent perfect and can arguably cause crashes through a threshold that activates either too early or too late. Its almost ironic it had to be a Toyota which had to have their system shown to be flawed in certain circumstances, although the majority of biased "enthusiasts" will simply pocket it for further ammunition against the Japanese giant. It seems a bit pre-emptive for Wheels to brag about the feature needing to be standard fitment from 2010 for models to be eligible. These systems obviously need more fine tuning before they really can be marketed as life saving.
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