OT: ABS (was:Re: microcode, compilers, and supercomputer , architecture)

From: Max Eskin <max82_at_surfree.com>
Date: Mon Apr 5 16:37:56 1999

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
>The reasons are that (a) I am not going to trust my life, and the lives
>of others to an undocumented system that could possibly fail, (b) a good
>driver can stop a car in a shorter distance than an ABS system can under
>some conditions and (c) if it does fail you have to use the brakes
>differently than you do with a working ABS system.

As far as I know, a failure of the computer can't cause the brakes to
fail. They would simply not 'pulse' as they should to prevent locking of
the wheels (what is that, by the way? a binding of the suspension?). Of
course, there should be a light to tell you about such a failure. Then
again, I'm one of those people who think that if it's new, it will be
outlasted by something that is already 30 years old.

>No thanks. I'd rather trust my skill (and thus have to learn to do things
>properly) than trust a microprocessor.

Unless of course you made it ;)

--Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
Received on Mon Apr 05 1999 - 16:37:56 BST