traction control
Traction control helps your car keep grip on the road when you accelerate, especially in slippery conditions.
Traction control limits wheel spin during acceleration by adjusting engine power or applying brakes to individual wheels.
Hear It Discussed
"sort of just putting on the rear axle. And they got to trick it to treat it like it was traction control. When traction control was considered illegal."
The One-Year Garage: 2012 Bring a Trailer Podcast
"I mean, I spun the back wheel up again with no traction control at 110 miles an hour down the back straight under the trees."
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"The only kind of traction control it has is it just does ignition cut. So it doesn't really like do brakes or anything like that."
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