This is my praise for my Toyota Prius and it's potentially life-saving and definitely accident-preventing electronic stability control. This also is a real-life account of the existence of so-called black ice, which frankly, ought to be called invisible ice.
Earlier this week, I was making my way home on what appeared to be a clear highway -- though I was traveling a cautious 50 mph give or take. As the center car in a line of five (and the only non-SUV or truck), I was the only vehicle to NOT end up flying into the center median thanks to my electronic stability control, which kept me straight as an arrow while the cars around me spun like tops.
If your next car has no other options, make sure it has ESC. Here's a dumbed down version of this complex system courtesy of wikipedia.
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