This does not seem like a valid use case for driving on public roads.
Driving in the snow often requires this because the brake acts as a poor man’s diff lock which gives you more traction. You can see the effect at speeds as low as 30kph in snow – a nice slow speed even in the city.
If people don't come out of a system interaction smarter than they went in, you're not doing it right. You're writing checks their continued ignorance will increasingly extort hogher costs from, and which will culminate in the formation of a lever of control in the form of manufacturers making decisions for people, usurping ultimate end agency.
I just don't buy that that's how the world should work. You can't build a better world without building better, more knowledgable people. We engineers spend too long making machines that do things for people without making clear why they exist and how they work.
I'm done with the "for their own good" BS.
You just hold the brake (lightly) with one foot, and gas with the other? This doesn't sound as useful as putting the car in 2nd, or rocking back and forth?
Neither of those cause the wheel with more traction to get any torque. Applying the brakes lightly will. Rocking and manually preventing wheelspin with the brake can be combined.
In theory, traction control will as well, but traction control may also intervene and decrease power right when you need it as you're getting unstuck, so there's potential merit in turning it off and preventing excess wheelspin with the brake yourself.
Source: I learned to drive in Alaska, and I have used this technique.
Thanks!
https://www.mazdamotorsports.com/2019/02/07/a-better-faster-...
And Spec Miata is a pretty terrible example anyways... at the point where you're dumping 10k into a $500 motor I don't think you can talk about stock anything...
We should empower people, not manipulate them through engineering usecases to/to not accommodate.