SQAcuraTL04

I thought that I would just note here in a post how amazing our VSA system is. Today on my way home from work I am going a good 50mph down a busy road 4 sections wide commercial businesses all around and this guy in a big Ford Expedition decides to make a you turn through the median and hop across lanes during busy traffic. He hopped in one lane I break as fast as I can without locking the car up, he decides to hop another lane seeing he was a bonehead and I was about to hit him, without enough time to slow down and my maneuvering around him quickly VSA kicks in and keeps the car under control the whole time. It all happened so quickly that I just followed instinct to get away from this moron before he causes an accident and my TL handled beautifully and took care of me the whole time. I'm so glad we have VSA, it's an amazing system. This is the second time the system had to kick in for me because of horrible Virginia drivers. Don't know what I'd do without it other than crash.

04DCTL

damn, glad to hear your okay man!

csmeance

If I was in my beater, I would have been screaming I win I win and then slammed into the dude... that was insurance money plus another knucklehead gets owned for being stupid.

t0talacuratl

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I agree with you there as far as Va drivers. You have got to be a very defensive driver!

D R E W

VSA saved my a*s too! I had the crappy stock TL Type-S tires on and lost control while making a left turn on a wet road. Almost side-swipe another driver but the VSA kicked in and corrected my direction and saved my a*s!

01tl4tl

With ABS brakes- what the design engineers refer to as Stomp and Steer, you cannot lock the brakes on the TL~ its not going to happen- ANTI- LOCK Brakes =ABSystem

Push the pedal as hard as you can- the wheel speed sensors send info the brakes which will (computer controlled) automatically go on and then off for a split second then back on- pulsing the faster wheel- until the wheel speeds match,
So you cant keep the tires from rotating- with ABS you stomp the brake pedal and decide which way to turn to avoid the incident/crash!!

The computer sensors for yaw, speed, nose angle, all gets gonkulated several times per second, so you can be sideways in the ice--and the system says a little left rear brake, now a touch of fronts, and there we go back straight again!
Or in a corner and it senses oversteer- applies a little inside brake to tighten the turn and your safe!

Read the owner book to understand how it all works together- and practice in a safe place before winter for sure- and on a wet day- go learn what the brakes do with ABS straight ahead and in an lane switch move

TL-Super

gonkulated

jokerman826

I have had mine come on several times over the past 1 1/2 years my car has been in VA due to the lack of skill drivers here have. Then when you complain about how bad the VA drivers are, someone will tell you that most of them are from other states.

I hate cars

Anyone notice it turns the radio off when you get really sideways? When a truck cut me off and I was doing 70mph, went into the gravel side of the road, was so sideways I had the steering wheel locked as far as it would go into the slide, recovered, and noticed the radio was off. This has happened twice.

stillhere153

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^ something tells me I don't want to find out

Tripnbeats

yea it kicked in for me once a few weeks ago...saved my ass as well. i smashed the brakes and yanked right but paying attention to the side of me avoiding other drivers as they were flying past the vsa controlled the braking perfectly

I hate cars

LOL. That's just the ABS, not VSA. VSA is a little more subtle. It will let the tail come out a little but if it gets more than a few degrees sideways it will apply ABS to the appropriate wheels.

I've pushed it slowly to the limits to see how it worked. Coming around a very long offramp in Vegas, I entered too hard on purpose, abruptly lifted throttle, and got the tail out. I purposely undercorrected slightly so the tail continued to get a little more sideways and then I felt the ABS pulse (without touching the brakes) and with no extra steering correction the rear slowly came back.

It doesn't stop the car from getting sideways, it tries to correct a very minor slide. It can't do much, but it can help a novice driver stop a small slide from becoming a spinout.

o4Komodo

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The VSA is amazing though.
I turned it off one day... and idiotically decided to take a turn with VSA off going 45km/h.
The TL ended up power sliding and I was half a car away from hitting a parked car. When I counter-steered I quickly turned the VSA on and avoided a park car on the other side of the street with even more ease.

The next day, when there were no cars parked on either side I decided to go 45km/h with VSA on at the same turn. The car took the turn like a champ.
Also.. my tires are quite bald.