Say just one car's stability-control system is activated at an unusually slow speed on a highway off-ramp.
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All of the models in our list come with the requisite safety features, including multiple airbags as well as electronic stability control to prevent the car from fishtailing out of control in extreme or emergency handling situations.
The big brakes, working with car's track-tuned ABS, the stability control and the fancy magnetic dampers' "body-control logic, " enable the F12 to perform truly miraculous feats of trail braking.
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All the critical systems in a modern car -- engine, transmission, brakes, stability controls -- are linked to a single electronic system called the Controller Area Network bus, or CAN bus.
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Sprung with double wishbones, coil springs and adaptive monotube dampers, the car offers a choice of three drive modes Tour, Sport and Track with escalating thresholds for the car's engine, transmission, suspension and stability logic.
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Combined with standard stability control that uses the antilock braking system to keep the car headed in the direction you're steering, we found the W8 unstoppable, even during a near-whiteout snowstorm that had a lot of SUV drivers skidding all over the road.
Each came equipped with Porsche Stability Management, which maintains stability by continuously monitoring the direction, velocity and acceleration of the car.
Meanwhile, there's some code in the stability-control system dubbed Agile Handling Assist, through which the car, actively braking one of more wheels, helps drivers hold their line with smaller steering inputs.
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Porsche's Stability Management system will grab a caliper or two to keep the car from gliding off into the weeds tail-end first (remember, that water-cooled 911 motor sits behind the cockpit).
He argues that with antilock brake and stability systems, 100 percent reliability is possible because they merely survey signals from within the car: wheel speed, pressure applied to the brake pedal, and so on.
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If the car begins to oversteer or understeer, the system applies braking on individual wheels to restore stability.
"The employment of members of (South Africa's military) to CAR is one of the efforts that South Africa is making to bring about peace and stability in the region, " said the South African statement, which was released through government spokesman Mac Maharaj.
Like the V-Coupe's, the V-Wagon's stability-control system has a sport map, and once engaged, it makes it hilariously easy to rotate the car under power.
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