Yeah roads run the gamut in the US. Particularly where you are Kentucky/Tennessee/Georgia/Arkansas. Some of the most beautifully forested back roads. With varying elevation to match.
My Purosangue has them. They actually do aid with ingress/egress so I wouldn’t call them a gimmick necessarily. I hear you on the structural rigidity and how that might be a concern, especially with frameless doors, but they are a very lithe piece of engineering.
I feel the opposite. It’s a perfect invention for the highway. I even find myself using it in regular traffic as well; a touch of the autonomous.
However, they can keep the lane keep assist and all the other shit that physically adjusts your steering wheel. I can stay in the lane by myself...
Is the option worth the cost. I’m not too keen on paying $2000 extra to “get around the corners“ better. The car should be engineered to get around the corners as is.
Just seems gimmicky.
It would be nice if Porsche, in the middle of any given model’s lifecycle, directly asked owners… “What do you guys want out of this car?“
And then feed that into an AI algorithm… And then build that.
The result would be more of a car most drivers want, and less of a car with visor mirrors so...
Mechanical LSD. You mean the feeling of mechanical limited slip-diff?, which is technically more mechanical than PTV.
Seems like traction control is enough. Everything else is just added weight and trickery.
Yeah the fact that you have to pay thousands of dollars to get something as common place as smart cruise control is ridiculous. This is default on most $20,000 cars now and should be considered a standard safety feature.