There is one other situation that ABS is a detriment, although this is wayyy
off of the original topic. The situation is similar to snow, and that is
off-road 4x4ing down a hill in sand. It is desirable to lock the wheels to
allow a mound of sand to build up in front of the wheel to assist with
stopping.
David Riker
74 Midget
63 Falcon
70 Torino
http://personalweb.sunset.net/~davidr
----- Original Message -----
From "Trevor Boicey" <tboicey at brit.ca>
To: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@erols.com>
Cc: "Spridgets" <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Ice And ABS (NO LBC)
> Nolan Penney wrote:
> > MmHm, an amusing thread, with plenty of idiotic claims. Locking all the
wheels up
> > and fooling the abs, using a wedge of snow to stop the car, etc.
>
> ...longtime listers will know that I'm usually the first
> guy to step in to try to control the spread of these
> type of "disabling ABS is safer" urban myths, but... I
> have to pipe up for this one, the snow wedge is for real.
>
> Again, "snow" means a lot of things to a lot of
> people. If you live in the south, you probably think
> of snow as "1cm of white powder" and you might have a hard
> time beleiving that it could ever stop a car.
>
> However, if you live in the north, and you
> hear snow and think of knee deep wet slime, the effect
> is not only plausible it's pretty bloody obvious.
>
> Oh the whole, ABS is a no brainer, I'd take it in any
> car overall. Only those "everybody is stupid except
> me" types that feel they know better than every major
> corporation could think otherwise. But then
> again, "thinking otherwise" is seemingly the point
> of their lives. (throw the word "pathetic" in there
> somewhere if you feel so inclined)
>
> I mention this more as curiousity than
> actually any kind of endorsement for disabling
> your ABS. More of a parlour trick than any real thing
> to base car decisions on.
>
> However, as much as I want to say "ABS stops faster
> in any situation", the snow wedge is AFAIK the only
> "curious exception" to an otherwise lovely rule.
>
> Simply, it really does work. If you are in deep
> snow and do a long controlled slide up to a stop
> sign, you can even feel it as the big mound you
> have to get over to get going again. If you can
> get going again. ;>
>
>
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> "Look Marge, Maggie lost her baby legs!" - Homer
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