On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Mark Andy wrote:
> A regular driver isn't going to beat good abs. A regular driver may very
> well be able to beat crap abs. Crap abs won't cause an accident unless
> you're already doing something wrong (IMHO).
You might be surprised, there are some really crappy systems out there.
Subaru has an ice-mode issue that was so bad, even up through at least the
'03 model year, that they were forced ( by accidents and lawsuits ) to
issue a covert recall ( they called it a 'voluntary service campaign' ) on
their ABS controller. If you hit a significant bump while stopping in our
WRX, the brakes were essentially turned-off, until you got back out of
the pedal for something like a half-second. That's particularly uncool
since for a decade or so now, everybody has been preaching to stand on the
brakes, and let the car figure it out. If you do that in ice-mode, you
will basically coast to a stop... or be more rudely interrupted.
A regular driver may not beat good ABS, but a good driver will tie with
good ABS all day long. ABS only helps when you've already screwed up, by
definition.
Personally, I can't get into ABS in any vehicle, unless I consciously
try to. After ice-racing ( without ABS obviously ) for years, 'stomp the
brakes' isn't in my feets' vocabulary. Now that we tripled the power in
our iceracer, I'm developing a more gentle throttle foot, too ;)
--
David Hillman
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