Paul Hunt wrote:
> That is precisely what I meant! (I'm deeply hurt you thought otherwise ...)
Well, you know what an insensitive bugger I tend to be . . .
> I would far rather pump the pedal myself and can feel the shock retardation
> just as the wheels lock, this does not seem to happen with ABS, one gets the
> pulsing under one's foot but the car just goes sailing on albeit steerable.
> The last time that happened to me I had the option of steering into some
> trees and a ditch one way or into the path of any traffic that might come
> over a blind hump-backed bridge the other. I chose to hit the car in front.
Ouch!
> My natural reaction when locking the wheels is to pump the pedal, which on
> ABS does bugger-all. I was a passenger in a skid-training car with
> switchable ABS at Silverstone and the driver wanted to demonstrate how much
> better ABS was than driver cadence braking. However he seemed only capable
> of pushing the pedal about once every two seconds so of course the car went
> sailing through the cones on a bend. I don't know about anyone else but I
> can pump them far faster than that! Your last para confuses me somewhat,
> surely if the esteemed Stirling Moss stopped in a straight line with the
> wheels turned and locked he was demonstrating the effect of a *typical*
> motorist (by choice I am sure) in a non-ABS car, not a *skilled* driver in a
> non-ABS car.
This is exactly what he was demonstrating: what NOT to do!
There was no ABS back then.
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