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Dash cam clip of drive to work this morning. Roads were getting slick due to rain/snow. I admit I was over correcting, but the 4Runner kept me in line and alive!
Language warning in the video. I couldn't help but drop the F-bomb lol

https://youtu.be/5v4CAX_vrRc

Nice, way to pay attention and react quickly, you saved yourself and avoided further damage/ injury to those other cars :thumb3: Not enough drivers do that these days

I can't believe how many people have gone flying past me going 80mph+ in the last few days of stormy weather I've had over here. Downright stupid.
 
Wow, you really have to pay attention out there...that was a close one.

I agree the trac sys on these 4th gen works REALLY well.

Without it I bet that would have been WAY bad.
 
Even with the traction control you did an awesome job of avoiding what would of been a very BAD day for you as well as making the other 2 drivers' day even worst than it already was, GREAT JOB!!! :bravo:

IMHO the F bomb was very appropriate, I would have said it at least twice or more!! :eyebrows:
 
Great save! Imagine if your family was in your car, and you didn’t have traction control! I drove a 2nd gen and lost control in a similar situation like that and I had my family in the car. If the truck wasn’t so heavy and I had blinked for a second to early or late I would have hit the car that ran into the median. I drive a 4th gen now and I am grateful for the traction control on it.

Which brings me to a question. That beeping we hear when traction control is trying to save you. If I went and did the traction control, vsc switch mod. Would that beep when I hit the switch? I only ask because I recently did a small snow run and I had traction control kick in and it beeped at me when i was trying to have some fun. Thinking of doing the mod but just want to be sure that there won’t be constant beeping while I drive on the snow/ice.

Not trying to hijack your thread, just curious
 
Great save! Imagine if your family was in your car, and you didn’t have traction control! I drove a 2nd gen and lost control in a similar situation like that and I had my family in the car. If the truck wasn’t so heavy and I had blinked for a second to early or late I would have hit the car that ran into the median. I drive a 4th gen now and I am grateful for the traction control on it.

Which brings me to a question. That beeping we hear when traction control is trying to save you. If I went and did the traction control, vsc switch mod. Would that beep when I hit the switch? I only ask because I recently did a small snow run and I had traction control kick in and it beeped at me when i was trying to have some fun. Thinking of doing the mod but just want to be sure that there won’t be constant beeping while I drive on the snow/ice.

Not trying to hijack your thread, just curious

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but this is my understanding of the VSC disable mod:
ATRAC is still functional and will kick in every now and then (the beeping that you hear) However, the throttle will not back down, nor will the steering lock up. So even if you hear the beeping, you can still keep your foot down on the throttle and keep doing donuts/ whatever you want.

My 5th gen has a VSC disable switch from the factory, but it only works if you're going less than 30mph, once you go faster than that the VSC turns back on. Same concept though, I turned off VSC in the empty parking lot at work while it was raining the other night, I could slide around as much as I wanted without any nannies kicking in.
 
If you guys are talking about the vsc disable hack found on the site...it will disable everything...no beeps or ticks or anything. You can lock the brakes up even. on a 4th gen
 
If you guys are talking about the vsc disable hack found on the site...it will disable everything...no beeps or ticks or anything. You can lock the brakes up even. on a 4th gen

Correct... but won't ATRAC still kick in every now and then in limited situations? Disabling VSC doesn't disable ATRAC afaik, those are very different systems. Sorry for getting off topic...
 
Thanks for the driving kudos everyone! I guess operating emergency vehicles has helped with last minute decision making. Fortunately nobody was injured in the accident.
 
Glad you made it out untouched. Could of been worse especially if people would stop tailgating and braking checking this would not have happen.

By the way, what dashcam is that? Nice video quality especially at night
 
Wow that is some scary footage! Impressive reaction time and driving skills, reinforces the fact that when conditions are sketchy, slow down! Blows my mind how people climb behind the wheel of a 5,000lb machine and treat it like it's a go kart even in inclement weather.

Just another reason to appreciate the 4th gen, which per Wikipedia is one of the safest vehicles on the road today.

An IIHS report published in April 2007 shows the 4Runner has one of the lowest death rates for all vehicles on the road at only 13 deaths per million registered vehicle years for the 2003 and 2004 model years. Only the Infiniti G35 and BMW 7 series had lower death rates.[10]
 
Correct... but won't ATRAC still kick in every now and then in limited situations? Disabling VSC doesn't disable ATRAC afaik, those are very different systems. Sorry for getting off topic...

It kills ALL the trac systems...at least on my T4R.
Its like driving a pre 1990's car.




I have that same Rexing, V1N.
Mine has been a pain in the butt, it shuts off at random.
Sometimes you cant watch the play-back on the PC because it just freezes up.
Wont hold a charge...maybe i got a lemon.
 
It kills ALL the trac systems...at least on my T4R.
Its like driving a pre 1990's car.




I have that same Rexing, V1N.
Mine has been a pain in the butt, it shuts off at random.
Sometimes you cant watch the play-back on the PC because it just freezes up.
Wont hold a charge...maybe i got a lemon.

Weird, I thought ATRAC still functioned, albeit in very few circumstances.

I have that Rexing dashcam. I also have issues sometimes, when you insert the SD card into a computer half of the files are corrupted sometimes. Not comforting, but it's the best one I've seen so far. I've got a few close calls, plus a few 3rd party crashes saved. I'm a freaking magnet for idiot drivers.
 
Just to clarify some terms:

VSC (Vehicle stability control) and ATRAC (advanced traction control) are two different things, and both are different from ABS (antilock braking system), although they all use the underlying ABS system.

VSC senses vehicle rotation around the vertical axis (yaw) and uses throttle control and differential brake control (through the ABS) to attempt to keep the vehicle going straight, and avoiding spinning out. That's why it comes on and kills your fun when you try doing donuts in the parking lot. VSC is what was primarily at work in the OP's video.

ATRAC applies braking (again using the ABS) to a spinning wheel to transfer power to the other wheel on the axle to help get you out of stuck situations. ATRAC knows nothing about vehicle yaw, and will not save you from doing a 360 on the highway - that's the job of VSC. Generally the "VSC Off" mods do not defeat ATRAC or ABS.

ABS in its original form simply keeps wheels from locking up during hard braking, so that you maintain some directional control during a panic stop. It's the oldest of the technologies - ATRAC and VSC have built on the underlying capabilities provided by ABS as sensors and computing power on vehicles have improved. ATRAC is almost entirely software; VSC is mostly software with a couple of additional sensors added in.
 
Just to clarify some terms:

VSC (Vehicle stability control) and ATRAC (advanced traction control) are two different things, and both are different from ABS (antilock braking system), although they all use the underlying ABS system.

VSC senses vehicle rotation around the vertical axis (yaw) and uses throttle control and differential brake control (through the ABS) to attempt to keep the vehicle going straight, and avoiding spinning out. That's why it comes on and kills your fun when you try doing donuts in the parking lot. VSC is what was primarily at work in the OP's video.

ATRAC applies braking (again using the ABS) to a spinning wheel to transfer power to the other wheel on the axle to help get you out of stuck situations. ATRAC knows nothing about vehicle yaw, and will not save you from doing a 360 on the highway - that's the job of VSC. Generally the "VSC Off" mods do not defeat ATRAC or ABS.

ABS in its original form simply keeps wheels from locking up during hard braking, so that you maintain some directional control during a panic stop. It's the oldest of the technologies - ATRAC and VSC have built on the underlying capabilities provided by ABS as sensors and computing power on vehicles have improved. ATRAC is almost entirely software; VSC is mostly software with a couple of additional sensors added in.

Thanks, that's what I thought, I just didn't articulate nearly as well as you did.

Back on topic: Still good job OP
 
Do any of you guys actually have the mod installed?

Try it, it KILLS ALL the systems. Period.

Yup, I did it to my 2003.

Not sure which mod you did... but it's even in the title of the write-up:

VSC Off, ATRAC On

VSC and ATRAC are very different systems. If you disable VSC and start spinning donuts in the snow, you'll likely never engage ATRAC in that kind of scenario. But it's still there.
 

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