4 Wheel Drive a safety feature?
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The belief in the headline is certainly ineradicable, but is it really so? You could also sell cars with air-filled tanks that can be lowered, thus giving you the security of not drowning if you fall into the water.
But who would think of driving so close to the water that you fall in?But, after all, unfavorable road conditions are also foreseeable. Then you just stop, which is probably the safest option. Then you could sell off-road vehicles
with the same argument.
Now you might bring up ESP and say that you could also remove the safety argument from it, because you could drive so slowly through the curve that it would never be needed. That's true, but a very quick evasive maneuver
may still be necessary, for example.
But not for a four-wheel drive. You don't have to drive on partially icy roads or up a mountain. If flooding is foreseeable, you won't get your car replaced if you don't move it away in time.
In fact, the term 'security' is often misused. So health insurance doesn't stop you from getting sick, does it? You could call a preventive medical examination insurance against illness, but not the regulation of who pays for the
financial consequences of the illness.
To give another scary example, you could use a road or motorway that is not noticeably icy at a certain point. But propulsion is not important in that case. It would be smarter to step on the clutch or glide, wouldn't it?
And if you really want to get out of the situation by braking and trust in the controllability of the ABS system, then the two-wheel drive vehicle rather has the advantage, because the less mass you have to brake, the better. That
can easily be a difference of 100 kg or more.
And perhaps the increased spinning of the wheels with only one drive axle would have given you more warning about the general and possible ground conditions than the perfectly functioning four-wheel drive. Because, as I
said, when braking, its advantages disappear, quite the opposite.
Sure, there are warning lights. But what do you think people are more likely to react to, the electronics or their own experience that things aren't moving forward as usual or maybe even sideways? No, that's more of a
marketing gimmick by the manufacturers to make extra money from this extra.
Now all that's missing is for off-road vehicles to be given the seal of safety too, because you can drive on any type of terrain, which means you're safer on the road. The fact that you're often not allowed or shouldn't drive there
isn't important.
Now all that's missing is for off-road vehicles to be given the seal of safety too, because you can drive on any type of terrain, which means you're safer on the road. The fact that you're often not allowed or shouldn't drive there
that doesn't matter.
These angular vehicles with a high center of gravity, which can only be prevented from tipping over when cornering sharply with a lot of technology. At the moment, the limits of the concept of safety are still being observed
here.
As you can see above, the plague has long since spread to electric cars. And they often force the two-wheel drive version to have rear-wheel drive with a hollow space at the front. When the front-wheel drive without the all-
wheel drive version could have a larger luggage compartment.
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