We can't afford anything newer either, but that's really not a consideration. We're stretching the repair of our (manual everything, even non-ABS brakes) trucks as far as it will go before we embrace the suck or modern cars that meet the Central Scrutinizer's standards.
Example study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15389588.2014.9...
> In line with previous results, this study concludes that ESC reduces the risk for single-vehicle injury accidents by 31% when controlling for various confounding factors related to the driver, the car, and the accident surroundings.
The reason I ask is that, as I understand it, the collection happens via cellular modems talking to cell towers to report back to the mothership; it's not through, e.g., connecting your smartphone via bluetooth. (The non-smartphone information they send is about car usage habits and statistics, including location.) I'd be curious what the make/model of the car is which doesn't have this hardware.
The sibling comment about the 2013 model is more likely since I don't know when manufacturers started putting cellular modems in their cars. "Brand new", not so much.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-yo...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-yo...
Did some drifting back when, in a car set up with all sorts of tricks, including 4 wheel line locks on the brakes. Those were used more often to put the car into a spin than to recover from one.
In the context of the article; NHSTA mandated stability control in 2012, so any car newer than average is guaranteed to have the feature.
Just don't drive like an idiot and/or learn how to manually recover from a skid.
I mean, I've never been in a skid that wasn't a direct result of driving like an idiot and have never crashed due to loss of traction. Probably the worst case was in my old BMW 2002 where I was making a left turn at an intersection, on wet roads, sideways, and instead of panicking I just gave it more gas until the rear end came around.
There was a Top Gear segment on why so many Finns are F1 drivers, etc., and it was actually good and informative, talking about their approach to childhood drivers ed.
We're talking skid pans, advanced defensive driving techniques, while you're a teenager. Dealing with hydroplaning, black ice, brake failure, all of it.
It doesn't look like any of that is going to change, so I'll be nursing older cars along for, in all likelihood, the rest of my life.