Thanks. That's kinda what I thought.
On 4/22/02 4:19 AM, "Oliver Brose" <oliver.brose_at_t-online.de> wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:23:24 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [NTLK] ABS and stopping OT,
>> From: Philip Bennett <pbnt_at_mac.com>
>>
>>
>> Wait a minute. Have we all been sold a load of Bovine Excrement here?
>> According to the PR of major auto manufacturers..i.e. Mercedes, Porsche,
>> BMW, etc...the computer chip controlled modulation of the brakes, including
>> feeding varying amounts of braking force to various wheels depending on
>> their current amount of slippage...is physically impossible for a human to
>> achieve, thus shortening the stopping distance.
>
> ABS is not meant at all to stop you *earlier* than casual breaking, it is
> there to keep you from slipping and sliding of the road/into the car in
> front of you with blocked wheels on slippy ground. If you give your
> ABS-breakes a full hit (what most people fail to do, even if they really
> really need to stop), or the system recognizes blocked wheels while
> breaking, it will not block/unblock your wheels, but/and "stutter-break",
> causing you *not* to slip. The ABS can do this much better than any human
> (as it has no foot & leg to operate).
> So the stopping-distance will be a good bit shorter than without ABS and you
> stutter-breakung, and a lot shorter than without ABS and no stutter-breaking
> in a situation that requires stutter-breaking.
>
> Oliver :)
>
> --
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> Cardboard aint worth nuttin if it aint got bubble wrap.
>
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