In slippery conditions, such as rain, if you need to accelerate, the traction control cuts power practically completely, so if you are at a stop sign, and try to cross a busy intersection, if you can get the traction control to not engage you can move pretty quickly across the intersection, if it's engage, and it activates it's as though you took your foot completely off the accelerator, I've had a loaner car of the same make and model as mine, but it was an automatic, the manual transmission doesn't seem to work the same with the traction control as the automatic does. The automatic you can feel the car practically claw at the road to move faster, while the manual, power is just completely cut, it's quite dangerous.

- Cinnaminson, NJ, USA