I feel this in my bones. I had traction control on my old G37 try to slam me i to a tree when I was driving at around 65 on a mountain highway with no problem until I hit a patch of gravel from a truck runaway ramp that hadn't been properly maintained. The car cut my steering and throttle inputs entirely, I tried to steer in to the skid and firmly power through it, like you're supposed to, but the car locked the wheel and went full brakes so I hit a steel marker sign doing just under 16 mph according to the ECU. When the cops showed up after I called my insurance, they looked at the gravel all over the highway, saw on my dash cam I was going the speed limit and then asked why I didn't steer in to the skid. I told them I couldn't, so they called their accident specialist and he just said
"Nissan traction control will lock out driver inputs over 30mph if it thinks its in a serious loss of control event and just slam on the brakes for you. Just write the state up for not maintaing that highway and the county for not maintaining the ramp, the guy you stopped isn't at fault."
The two cops just told me to let the insurance total it and not to buy another Nissan. Smart cops, really.
I picked up a Land Cruiser because they're one of the few reliable jap cars that still give the driver complete control of everything, including when to disable air bags, change throttle settings and still lets you roll down windows when you have the controls locked out for passengers
