What is active steering?

[Spurgy 777]

As I looked through the 8 people in front of me in my region at the time, I saw that 7 were using Active Steering, so I gave it a go.

I admit it made the car a lot more stable on both entry and exit, but it also made it more difficult for me to turn in the car. For the driving style necessary without it, this is totally against intuition.

So, not only did I not go any faster, as I was stepping on the accelerator earlier and earlier, when the back-end finally did start to wander and I tried to compensate with steering input (opposite lock), the wheel would transfer something like hitting something and the car would snap rather violently, as if the correctional input from the Active Steering could not cope with my correcting the slide. I ended up several times off the track because of this.

I don't doubt that, if you are willing to spend the time to get used to it, you probably can go at the same speed or even faster than without it, but for me you also give up some predictability with it. For me the bottom line is - I wouldn't want to drive with it 'on', if I had the choice. At least then I know perfectly well why I'm going off track.

It varies depending on what wheel you have, or if you have a controller. It also depends on how you drive and how much feel/control you want.

 

[smskeeter23]

I've noticed when trying this that you really need to absolutely nail the turn-in or you may well go off due to not being able to steer more (it just ignores the input) to save it.

 

[hairystig]

I've noticed when trying this that you really need to absolutely nail the turn-in or you may well go off due to not being able to steer more (it just ignores the input) to save it.

Turning up controller steering sensitivity can help combat that, I think.

 

[smskeeter23]

Turning up controller steering sensitivity can help combat that, I think.

By doing that though you are still trying to input something the AS will ignore.

I turned it off and the issue went away. So I tried it, then un-tried it lol