Mode selector questions and comments
Safety Car
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From: Northern Virginia
Safety Car
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From: Ocean Springs MS
Didn't mean to be and my apologies to Talon as I hadn't meant to take him to task. I simply tire of the semantics game here sometimes and the various fanboy and hater stuff is also wearing thin.
Any electronic aid that intervenes with the intent of helping you stay out of the dirt is a nanny. I don't by the way consider this a bad thing when it can be controlled. My question stems from the fact that I'm truly surprised that GM would have a base mode (track) that does not have any intervention at all. This doesn't jive with their culture of risk management. Not saying it isn't the case and that is where my question comes in.
Any electronic aid that intervenes with the intent of helping you stay out of the dirt is a nanny. I don't by the way consider this a bad thing when it can be controlled. My question stems from the fact that I'm truly surprised that GM would have a base mode (track) that does not have any intervention at all. This doesn't jive with their culture of risk management. Not saying it isn't the case and that is where my question comes in.
Safety Car
Joined: Jan 2015
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From: Northern Virginia
I'm not sure I buy it, as steering and throttle really aren't that abrupt in track mode. But that's the reason GM gave. In any case, I guess I don't find switching back to track mode to be any more difficult than pushing the start button and releasing the parking brake. If you want to be in track mode all the time, just make it habit when you start the car.
