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One way BMW limits the odds of a wreck at their schools is by mandating that DSC stays on. Students who turn it off (immediately obvious by observation of the car) are reprimanded as it will not be tolerated. The only place DSC is allowed off is on the skidpads (the concrete one and the asphalt one where the "rat race" is held) as the speeds are low and ability to hit anything is essentially zero.

I've always advised people that learning to drive a DSC/nanny controlled car can potentially teach very poor driving skills since you're not actually driving the car but having throttle pulled, etc, to prevent what it thinks is a bad decision. It should only something that pure novices in a powerful car begin with under the proper instruction prior to learning how to actually handle the real car. This is particularly true of beginning/intermediate students who have never autocrossed before nor had any car control experience.