Car companies have tried to increase consumer safety throughout the years by coming up with newer and better computers for their cars. Every year, the latest model cars include more of these new computers whose sole purposes are to save lives and make driving the cars easier for the consumers. Here are three of the newest things in today’s car computers:

Stability management allows a car technology like the ABS (Anti-lock Brake System) and Traction Control systems, to control a vehicle against the tendency of directional instability. Using a system of sensors, it detects acceleration and speed of the wheels. ESC computer software determines if the vehicle is unstable, along with the degree to which the vehicle is plowing or fishtailing. It then selectively applies pressure to individual front or rear wheel brakes, and reduces engine power to bring it under control. These things happen so quickly that drivers never even notice something was wrong.

Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) is held accountable for changing vehicle speeds. It allows the engine speed to remain at its highest level of peak efficiency. This improves fuel economy while exhausting emissions. CVT is a transmission which changes seamlessly through any number of effective gear ratios. This car technology can provide better fuel economy over other transmissions by allowing the engine to run at its most efficient revolutions per minute (RPM) for a range of vehicle speeds.
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