New cars are confusing. With all the computers, sensors, and gadgets, it may seem like there's some sort of magical witchcraft taking place under the hood. We're here to show you how modern automotive ...

Joshua is an automotive enthusiast who explores every facet of car culture. With a history of over 30 vehicles, his love for Japanese tuner cars shines. Beyond ownership, he dives into every vehicle, ...

Traction control has been a required feature on all new cars sold in the U.S. since 2012, likewise antilock brakes and stability control — though the feature predated the government requirement by ...

Zak is new to the CarBuzz team, working as a freelance content writer. When Zak isn't writing How To articles for CarBuzz he's working as a high school automotive technology instructor. Before ...

The push for mandatory traction control in motorcycles seems to be starting already with a VicRoads safety campaign emphasising it is a key to rider safety. The campaign features an erroneous online ...

The antilock braking system control module is a microprocessor that runs diagnostic checks of a vehicle’s ABS. It processes information from wheel-speed sensors and the hydraulic brake system to ...

Traction control. For most drivers, it’s great in the snow, great in the rain, and great on the pavement. For enthusiasts, it’s terrible pretty much everywhere. Or at least it used to be until ...

The alphabet soup near your steering wheel or dashboard that lists a bunch of letters like “DSC,” “ESC,” “VSC” or any combination thereof, means less than nothing to most drivers. Yet ESC, or ...

Just when it seems like the internal combustion engine has reached a performance peak, another automaker pushes the power and torque bar even higher. Thanks to sophisticated computerized sensing and ...

Here's something that might have caused considerable uproar a few years ago, but that will likely be uncontested by today's motorcyling world: The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ...

Harley-Davidson is introducing traction control and other electronic rider aids such as hill-start assist and tyre pressure monitors to its 2020 Touring and CVO models. Last year Harley added traction ...