whenever the front wheel explodes, the stability of the car is hardly compromised, if at all. The back wheels are the ones which decide.

@@jemand8462 agree

exactly what I was thinking. Normally you don't expect this to happen. When I'm driving on the highway, I only have 1 hand on the steering wheel 99% of the time and not even in a good position or with a firm grip. I think it's time ESP also does corrective steering instead of just supporting

@@tafdiz no, that's incorrect. ESP is much more intelligent then you think. If the input you give it through your wheel doesn'T correspond to the accelerations the car endures, it intervenes as much as it can. Of course, if you steer in the wrong direction, it will make things work, but so will steering alone haha.

You physically can't save slides that the ESP can, even if you're the best driver in the world, because you can't control the braking on each of the 4 wheels individually and modulate it 1000's of times per second like ESP can. You might countersteer on time and that's about it.

​@@derbigpr500You don't need to brake, braking transfers weight onto the front axle (assuming you're somewhat going forwards), if you have a FWD car (and a limited slip diff helps too) and gun the throttle, even if you're doing 50mph in reverse with the steering almost straight, the car will violently spin forwards, and don't let off the throttle til it stabilises, otherwise it will do a sort of pendulum turn by accident (and crash), if you don't believe me, watch MINI racing, as they're all short wheelbase FWD, in fact even in a RWD ever so slight acceleration can help if it wasn't spinning up the tyres that got you into a skid in the first place, otherwise in RWD if you can countersteer enough to save it but it's understeering so much that you can't counter the slide (understeer and oversteer at the same time is terrifying), then slightly braking could help (and ESP could be useful here, but if the car is at such an angle that the forwards most front wheel (if the car is spinning to the left, it'd be the right front wheel) is past the center of mass, then using the hanbrake ever so slightly could get you out of a slide as well as ESP, since you'd want to apply max braking to both rear wheels without them locking or sliding more (think pulling them back into line), and the inside wheel will start to loose grip first, when that one is slightly past the limit of grip, then the outside rear wheel has more grip, causing the car to return to center (it's the reason locking your brakes can cause understeer just before it happens) I keep my ESP on when I'm driving to college, but off when I'm having fun, since I'll be prepared, I switch it off, since not only is ESP just as good as a good driver who knows how to send weight/power/braking to different wheels, but the only difference is you can predict what you will do, you can't predict what some computer program with 1000's of lines of code, and also ESP overheats the brakes, since it targets specific brakes each time you steer, the brakes overheat very quickly, whereas if you don't have ESP, and when you brake you use all the brakes, then the heat is distributed throughout, and you can still make the car do whatever you want, but it might require left foot braking while on the throttle in a FWD car, you push the brake bias rearward, so the rear comes round more easily, this will overheat your front brakes, but you could blend the handbrake with the foot brake instead, which would stop the overheating issue, but cause difficulties reaching the handbrake while changing gears when cornering, like you would in rally (the best motorsport, F1 drivers have admitted it's more impressive), so maybe when your hands are free left foot brake, and when the brakes are boiling swap to handbrake and footbrake (the pads overheat and stop working if they individually overheat like with ESP, but because without electronics the car uses the brakes evenly, the pads rarely overheat, even in a road car with road brakes, the first thing to go is usually the fluid boiling, which causes the brakes to work just as well as usual, you just can't engage them because the entire pedal is sponge. TLDR ESP saves lives, but you're faster, safer, and more reliable when racing without it, however if you think when your driving to the shops you should turn it off then you're stupid (who gets brake boil going shopping?)

ESP Sport puts your cars stability program to allow a bit of a play, to be more generous with your feedback before activating. And turning it off means you will have no assistance when needed, so keep it in Sport mode, and don't turn it off unless you want to drift, maybe in some other car.

ESP focuses on fixing the car’s trajectory while TC focuses on limiting wheel spin and maintaining grip. Both use individual wheel braking in different ways. For example, ESP slows the inside rear wheel when taking a high speed turn, whereas TC slows the wheel when it starts spinning on a slippery surface (puddle/snow/etc). In the Audis I’ve driven (C6 and C7), ESP Sport means both ESP and TC allow for more sliding and wheel spin before activation. They allow the car to understeer/oversteer more and allow the wheels to spin a bit when using launch control. They will still activate in extreme situations, although it may or may not be too late. Turning them fully off means you’re on your own. I don’t recommend turning them off because the cars have very little feedback (especially in the steering) so they are out of control long before you realize. The systems do so much in the background that you don’t realize. As they say, you don’t know what you have till its gone 😅

I actually never tried the esp sport mode. ESP was switched off completly for this comparison.

​@@Inanabananana I'm not sure if ESP can actually be turned off completely in modern cars, esp. compact cars. At least for VW Golf I know that you can't. And as Audi A3 is pretty much a VW Golf, I'm 80% sure it's the same system. My guess would be that ESP off actualyl means TC is off so you can free yourself in sand or snow by using a lot of slipping.

It can make sense to turn it off in certain situations, e.g. when stuck in snow

RIVESH MAHARAJH you may need to turn it off when climbing on a dirt road. ESP engages automatically when speed reaches to 50 km/h in my Peugeot

for fun in snow

Martin Werner now you tell me 😭

Drifting obviously

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The 97 Silverado doesn't have ESP.

Quattro is Audi's 4 wheel drive system. ESP, or Electronic Stability Programme, is a system that prevents a car from skidding by automatically applying brake to one or more wheels.

Good Job :) I've also managed to stay straight on the course most of the times, but in the last two tries I accidentally steered in the wrong direction for a split second. You can see that at 0:12 and 0:23 if you look closely. With ESP OFF my mistake was punished immediately, while ESP ON saved me when making the same mistake.

​@@MartinWernerStudios yes! lightning fast corrections are expected - a small error in timing / direction "amplifies" the skid

no difference, quattro only helps acceleration, not braking

Gm quattro can brake better than fwd and rwd. With enginebrake!

@@driftanddriveby9212 hahahahahahah

@@MrSack hast wohl keine ahnung von autos

@@driftanddriveby9212 Na dann erkläre mir doch mal wie das Haftung für die Räder in einer Kurvenfahrt/Spurveränderung bereitsellt / ´´erzeugt´´

It's usually turned on by default in most modern cars. If you press the ESP Button you will actually turn it off.

You wouldn’t. Don’t you see the loss of traction is massive. Not every oversteer can be corrected.

Not really...Drifting require some amount of traction as well. There was literally no traction here.

Which like 95% of drivers aren’t drifters so good thing ESP exists.

@@leeeinfield probably 99%

not on a puddle of water with such a fast unsettling of the car - no drifting skill will help you react in time.