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by leviathant 5345 days ago
Fairly recently, a box came out for the car I drive that lets you use the steering wheel volume controls to upshift and downshift. The same box has a trick that, under very controlled circumstances, allows you to lock only the front brakes (the car is RWD) until your speed is > 5mph.

You have to be in fake-manual mode, set to 1st gear, with the brakes depressed, and the box enabled. Then you pull back on the cruise control stalk to engage the brakes. There's really no way to accidentally engage the mode, but yeah, that sounds exactly like the sort of thing you're worried about. Using the cruise control stalk to trick the car into thinking it hit a patch of ice, so it selectively engages the brakes.

I should note that a) I don't do burnouts and would never use this option, and b) I believe you can enable/disable it via USB and the programming utility.

Happy driving ;)