Electronic Stability Control (ESC) is a technology that saves lives. Studies have shown that ESC could save as many as 4,000 lives a year in Europe (and 400 in UK) and avert nearly 100,000 injuries. Cars fitted with Stability Control are involved in fewer accidents than those which are not. Put simply, you are safer with it than without it. Fortunately, ESC’s life-saving potential has been recognised by lawmakers. In Europe, the European Commission proposed recently that ESC should be mandatory for all new vehicle types from 2012 with all new vehicles being equipped by 2014. Good news, on the face of it. Yet that is another four years before some new vehicles must have ESC and it could take several more before every vehicle in the showroom is equipped with a safety technology that has been in existence for many years.
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