Understanding Porsche Stability Management (PSM): Enhancing Safety

This incredible safety feature is designed to let drivers experience the full breadth of their car’s abilities while maintaining the highest level of stability and control in any environment.

Understanding Porsche Stability Management

Stability Management works hand in hand with Traction Management and other internal safety features to monitor the vehicle’s acceleration and changing attitude on the road. This system looks at several key factors to determine when the vehicle might be slipping, and takes corrective measures to prevent the driver from making overcorrections. The three major system changes are:

Acceleration in Turns

Stability Management is often most important when it comes to taking tight turns. This is the point where you are most likely to feel the rear end of the car start to slip sideways as you lose traction.

With this new technology, the car detects impending yaw acceleration and dampens steering controls automatically to help the driver transition through the curve without making abrupt steering changes to try and get the tail end back under control.

Differential Power

In addition to dampening the steering slightly for a smooth transition, the Stability Management system also adjusts the power flowing to each wheel independently to lessen the likelihood that the back end continues to accelerate past the front end, creating a spin.

Differential Braking

At the same time that the system is adjusting power flow to each wheel, it is also adjusting your braking capacity at the rate of milliseconds. As it reads every bit of data coming in, each wheel is controlled to give you the maximum advantage of safety while still maintaining the power and steering capabilities that you’ve come to expect under normal driving conditions.

Other Cases for Stability Management

While this system is celebrated for its role in tight turns on windy roads, it also comes into play in various day-to-day driving scenarios. For instance, the stability system will jump in when it detects bumpy or uneven roads where your wheels might lose contact with the ground or slip across some loose gravel. Stability management is also automatically engaged when Wet Mode turns on to give you additional assistance when hydroplaning might be a risk.

Stability Management was first introduced to the Porsche line way back in 1998, but in the years since it has improved over and over. Today, it is a fully modernized system that works with a complex array of sensors and other data tracking systems inside the vehicle to give you ultimate control of your vehicle, no matter how sharp the curve or how slippery the surface.

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