Ford is the first manufacturer to standardise ESP in the compact family class in Ireland by fitting it to its best selling Focus.
At a demonstration event in Mondello to show the practical benefits of ESP systems, he added that ESP could prevent as many as 4,000 road fatalities every year in Europe
But he said that the imposition of VRT on safety systems such as ESP limits the take-up of the technology and he noted that Denmark has massively increased proliferation of ESP through Exchequer incentives.
At least 40 percent of fatal road accidents are the result of skidding. Studies show that ESB could reduce skidding accidents by up to 80 percent. ESP detects a deviation of the vehicle's motion from the driver's intended path, and brakes one or more wheels to get the vehicle back on its desired path. It is now standard on the Ford Focus, C-MAX, Mondeo, S-MAX and Galaxy models.
In the video clip, the red Focus at the beginning has NO ESP fitted. Its performance in the wet is clearly inferior to the silver cars which are fitted with the technology.
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