StabiliTrak
StabiliTrak Electronic Stability Control System helps improve vehicle stability, particularly during emergency maneuvers. It's standard on Cobalt Sport and SS Turbocharged models (SS Turbocharged available spring 2008). Here's how it works:
- The StabiliTrak control module compares your steering input with the vehicle's actual response and then, if necessary, makes small, individual brake applications to enhance control and help keep you on track.
- StabiliTrak automatically intervenes when it senses loss of lateral traction (sideslip), understeer (plowing) or oversteer (fishtailing).
- In these situations, the system applies brake pressure and, if necessary, adjusts engine torque to help you get the vehicle back on track.