http://www.canadiandriver.com/2009/0...ty-control.htm

Its the cost benefit analysis compared to getting sued for $Billionn I guess that swung it. Kind of the same reason many manufacturers abandoned "optional" side curtain airbags...If its a good thing for safety you had better include everyone or else be sued for negligance for not fitting it as standard across the board.

So not made mandatory then, but, the Fed propose to make it mandatory from 2011. I wonder whether that will fly, most vehicles being engineered for the US requirements rather than Canadian ones.

It's just a 2002 Saturn SL, it doesn't even have ABS.

I want to sell it next year for something less close to the ground. No, not a plane. I've just driven back from Pbro and it was rather slippy on highway 7 just east of the city. Strangely all drivers were going slowly and keeping their distance. First of the season things, will change.

When is the OP coming, there's a storm on it's way for Wed/thurs.

Guess which days I am working this week?

Its to be made mandatory in the US, Its been made mandatory in Europe, It makes no sense to put up a fight in Canada.

I think I read somewhere else that its a done deal anyway, but that one from March was the easiest article to find.... I know Civics now come with ESP as standard and it was not an option when I got mine in 2008...

If the US does it then Canada will. No question.

Oh, you're doomed.....

http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-b...fall_map_1.asp

I feel doomed. Those are some cold realfeel temps..

There is a band of rain following along behind it though so it should all melt (at least the stuff in the southern but of Ontario) soon after it arrives.

Sloppy, but apparently not permanent.

Still, Id better find my shovels, they are in the basement somewhere

That sounds more the potential for an ice storm to me.

Anti-skid technology to be mandatory in 2011
Transport Canada to require system on all light vehicles

EC forecasts a high of 8°C, so not cold enough.

Got all that fancy stuff in my car, just wish you could turn off the traction control sometimes.

I hope they're right.

Is there a fuse you can pull under the hood?

It would be nice if there was always some driver control over these "enhancements" because although good most of the time, traction control and ABS are not necessarily the best performance aids in certain canadian conditions.
Me too, nothing's worse than freezing rain as far as I am concerned.

Sloppy and slippy. All that slush, but better than ice and rain.