Automotive News, Media & Press - 2010 Corvette ZR1 - Performance Traction Management

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJBVPq0U_vw

Enjoy!

Freaking awesome...this is fucking drive by wire shit :)

W

That is pretty cool.

The way I understood it is that the car controls it so its BARELY on the edge of breaking the tires loose all the time under full throttle right?

Pretty much.. they get the calculations from the individual wheel speed sensors, g's, throttle %, steering wheel angle.. stuff like that! Just now if they had a way to steer its self, we'd just mash the gas! :P

You could actually design unstable cars that would go around corners faster with tech like this...you could also have much more power...especially when you get electric cars with instant torque. This is going to really open the possibilities up. One day we will tell our kids how we actually had to drive cars around corners...kind of like the difference between a Cessna and an F-16.

W

as long as there's always an option to turn it off I don't care how much code they write. A computer is not driving my car.

as long as there's always an option to turn it off i don't care how much code they write. A computer is not driving my car.

+1....

Almost takes the fun and adrenaline rush out of driving fast...

As Mario Andretti once said "If everything seems under control, you`re just not going fast enough."

Will not take the rush out...just allow you to go a lot faster if this is leading to where I think it is leading. The current cars were designed around conventional driving dynamics, conventional physics and ppl doing all of the driving...in 5 or 10 yrs there will be cars designed from the outset to be driven by wire...aka designed to go faster and handle in a manner that you and I cannot control...but above the capabilities anyone could do conventionally. Sure we will lament it...but this will change things for the best...if the best means going faster :)

W

No thanks. :nono:

better than the systems of the past

i understand some people will love this, but doesnt help you become a better driver

(i also really like that you can get a Z06/ZR1 in Artic White now:devil:)

If it makes you faster, doesn't that make you a better driver?

W

If it makes you faster, doesn't that make you a better driver?

W

Definitely not. Just like a car being faster doesn't necessarily make it more fun. Call me crazy, but a sports/sporty car just isn't the same to me unless there are 3 pedals. I do find it a bit ironic that a lot of the people that always complain about some new cars "driving themselves" have nearly-stock cars with big stall automatics and bigs/littles with drag radials.

They have come a long way to put something like this in production. IMO pretty cool, you can always turn it off, just more stuff to add to the fun

Definitely not. Just like a car being faster doesn't necessarily make it more fun. Call me crazy, but a sports/sporty car just isn't the same to me unless there are 3 pedals. I do find it a bit ironic that a lot of the people that always complain about some new cars "driving themselves" have nearly-stock cars with big stall automatics and bigs/littles with drag radials.

Faster doesn't mean more fun but I think gm is doing a good job of preserving the fun of a six speed manual while adding features that will help keep it competitive (from a speed and consistency stand point) with other manufacturer's that use awd and dual clutch paddle shifted trans. I'm suprised they are not offering the new vettes with no-lift shifts. I think even the cobalt ss has it.

If it makes you faster, doesn't that make you a better driver?

W

ha true, but i think you know what i was getting at. if the feature was not there, then if you jumped into a car without it, you'd still have the same amount of skill you started with 9basically). but i understand what you are saying, and from that perspective, yes, it does. as long as its got an off switch, its fine by me :D not that ill own one in the near future or anything.