Safety Organisation Pushes For ESC To Be Fitted On All Cars

Monday, 2. August 2010

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If you are a regular reader of my articles and newsletter you will know how I bang on about the benefits of the Electronic Safety Control (ESC or also called ESP). Car testers EuroNCAP say that all cars should be fitted with ESC now without waiting till they are legally obliged to do so. Only 60% of new cars are fitted with ESC compared to 99% in Sweden, 80% in Germany and 72% in Spain. If ESC isn’t fitted as standard on your car it will cost around £400 to have it as an option although experts claim that it costs manufacturers just £100 to manufacture and fit. Thatcham claims that if ESC was fitted on all new cars it would save 380 lives every year – more than ABS. Euro NCAP go a step further by not only pushing for all new cars to have ESC fitted as standard now, they say that the switches that allow drivers to switch it off should be scrapped ensuring, like ABS, that it is engaged all the time. I agree totally. Having experienced the emergency benefits of ESC personally I can vouch that it is amazing and I can see how it could save many lives. What are your views? Had any experience? By Graham Hill