When is traction control mandatory

Never thought i'd see the day anti-lock brakes much less traction control as standard for all cars. Jun 23, 5, 0 JEDI said:. ABS isn't standard already? I thought ABS has been on pretty much every car made for the past 10 years. SparkyJJO Lifer. May 16, 13, 6 Jun 30, 7, 4 0. I think this will be the first federal requirement for brakes since or '69 when they mandated dual circuit hydraulic systems. There may be more general standards for braking performance, but technically I don't think anything is or was stopping anyone from making a new car with non-ABS four-wheel manual drums.

The stability control thing makes sense to me. You're decreasing stopping distance a bit in comparison to a wheels-locked skidding stop and allow the driver to maintain control better Stability is proactive and helps keep retards from spinning out of control and wiping a bunch of people out with them.

Feb 5, 35, 5, Even if not required by government,the safety testing agencies will ding vehicles points for not having ESC or ABS, and from marketing point of view, they will tend to have those. Starting with , EuroNCAP European safety ranking organization will even require automated braking to score 5 stars. I wouldn't be surprised if IIHS follows suit soon after.

Jumpem Lifer. Sep 21, 10, 3 I think the mandates are stupid, personally. Most people want it so most cars have it now. Cars with really poor crash tests usually don't sell too great anymore either. The market has already decided most of these things, why get government involved yet again? My vehicle doesn't have traction control, but that's OK. I wouldn't mind if it did, but I also wasn't going to spend more money to get it as I couldn't afford it at the time heck still couldn't right now.

Odds are pretty good my next won't either. SparkyJJO said:. Jumpem said:. So that every vehicle gets advanced safety features, not just luxury cars. Most of these systems exist as optional if not standard on many cars these days, not just luxury. But that brings up my point again - who's gonna pay for all that? Cars cost almost a retarded amount of money these days. Mandate even more stuff and you'll price even more people out of them.

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Your car is trapped in very deep snow, mud or other surface in which your car cannot move out on its own. Turning off traction control while you rock your car may help you drive out faster. We'd love to hear from you! This is checked at warrant of fitness inspections. The requirement to have ESC does not apply to some specialist vehicles, such as vintage, motorsport and scratch-built vehicles.

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Skip to main content Skip to page navigation. Ministry of Transport all modes road rail sea air Filter by mode of Transport. What you need to know Electronic Stability Control ESC is a crash prevention system that intervenes if it detects that a vehicle is about to skid or lose traction. In , the number of light vehicles with ESC entering the New Zealand fleet was increasing, and was expected to prevent deaths and serious i From 1 July , all new cars, vans, 4-wheel drives and goods vehicles imported into New Zealand must have ESC.