Will driverless cars save lives? (more than 130 collisions)

[bigothunter]

Pit Pony said:

There are 2 events 32 years apart, that makes me like some driver aids.

The day in 1985 that I spun my dad's 1.6 Sierra estate backwards over a central reservation, after pressing the accelerator too hard as I left a wet roundabout. Lucky there was no damage.
No traction control (or even rear seat belts or head rests it was so basic)

And the day in 2017, when I came off a wet roundabout too fast and pressed the accelerator too much in a 2001 MV6 omega. It's very crude traction control, went, "No you don't" and did something at the rear, which stopped me going sideways at 60 mph. I felt a little "twinge" a kind of split second deceleration from one rear wheel, and that was that. No drama.

Front wheel drive could be a better option for you.

[Pit Pony]

bigothunter said:

Pit Pony said:

There are 2 events 32 years apart, that makes me like some driver aids.

The day in 1985 that I spun my dad's 1.6 Sierra estate backwards over a central reservation, after pressing the accelerator too hard as I left a wet roundabout. Lucky there was no damage.
No traction control (or even rear seat belts or head rests it was so basic)

And the day in 2017, when I came off a wet roundabout too fast and pressed the accelerator too much in a 2001 MV6 omega. It's very crude traction control, went, "No you don't" and did something at the rear, which stopped me going sideways at 60 mph. I felt a little "twinge" a kind of split second deceleration from one rear wheel, and that was that. No drama.

Front wheel drive could be a better option for you.

Indeed. As would driving to the conditions.

The traction control on my Astra GTC is so insensitive, you'd have to have one wheel on frozen gravel and one wheel on hard dry concrete and give it full revs, for it to think about kicking in.