Traction control is a very important safety system on your vehicle. By maintaining the grip between the tires and the road, ...

What Is Traction Control? At its simplest, traction control is an automated system that reduces the vehicle’s power to specific wheels when wheel slip is detected. So, when you floor it on snow ...

With everyday vehicles becoming more and more equipped, you don’t expect motorcycles, let alone superbikes, to fall behind, ...

While the Hondata Traction Control system proved effective at performance applications on a road course, Hondata's Doug Macmillan points out this system also improves vehicle manners on the street.

The term traction control implies there is feedback into a system that knows how much wheel spin exists at any given time and the control system reacts to produce the desired result: zero tire spin.

The system consists of several components, including the hydraulic unit, the engine unit, and a range of sensors. Traction Control or TSC is, in essence, a Stability Control system with fewer ...

The Corvette ZR1 is already one of the best road-going machines ever made, but that hasn’t stopped the Chevy engineers from adding a few updates for the 2010 model.The main upgrade is a new ...

Brake-Based Traction Control. Another type of off-road traction assist system is brake-based traction control. This system works by applying the brakes to individual wheels when they slip. It ...

Quadra-Trac I uses open differentials and relies on the traction control system to distribute power by way of the SUV's brakes. If a wheel loses traction, the system senses the wheelspin and ...