[Z06] Active Handling...WOW!!!
Team Owner
Joined: Oct 2001
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Re: Active Handling...WOW!!! (SoulDad570)
This does raise an interesting point though... does AH make you a worse driver? I've always prided myself in my driving skills and my quick reflexes. I've saved my own butt more than once without AH. But now that I have a car with AH, I am getting lazy. I am coming to trust AH to get me out of binds.
Food for though...
Food for though...
Race Director
Joined: Aug 2000
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From: Central Florida
Re: Active Handling...WOW!!! (Dope)
AH ..., I never use it 
It's good for beginners though.
It's good for beginners though.
Along side the long list of Z06 owners who have totalled their car running with AH-OFF, is another list of those who have never disclosed that THEY too totalled their cars running with AH-OFF.
I have hundreds of parachute jumps. Alway wore a reserve chute. Prudent thing to do. Limits the worst that can happen.
But if you drive the streets or the drags with AH-OFF, you are accepting needless risk with virtually no reward, other than ego. It's like NOT wearing a reserve parachute, Only the ego-obsessed risk-addicted do that.
Ranger
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From: Northeast IN
Re: Active Handling...WOW!!! (Ranger)
Funny this topic comes up. Last weekend I was going down an interstate at about 80mph and with our crappy headlights, I noticed a large roadkill (size of a large dog about 20 feet in front of me with a car farther up the road on side with blinkers. I whipped the car around the roadkill, and active handling kicked in and kept the car straightened out. If I had hit the roadkill it would have ripped up my front end and about everything else along the underside of the car. Thank goodness for AH!
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From: ON
Re: Active Handling...WOW!!! (TeamSpeed)
There are those who always turn off AH because they don't want the car deciding what it should do, then there's me. I love it when AH kicks in. In fact, I'll often get on it so that it kicks in. It's the coolest feeling! 
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Re: Active Handling...WOW!!! (PbPedis)
It will not make you a worse driver. There are very few drivers good enough to be hampered by AH. Before the 01 model year it was more intrusive but the AH on the newer cars can actually be used to make the car do something you couldn't do easily without it since there is no way a driver can engage the brake on just one wheel.
Bill
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