Invasive creature or standard feature? Small cars and VSC, ABS, and traction control

[gokartride]

Originally Posted by silver_echo

that is part of a new law coming down the pipe... within a few years, you will not be able to buy any new car without abs, trac, and some form of stability. the big issue that i have with this new law, is that you will not be able to turn any of it off...

Extremely valid points you make and yet, given the documented safety benefit, how could they not make it standard? Not there isn't a down side...but in the end it'd be hard for the gov to ignore possible safety improvement at moderate cost.