On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Buck Savage wrote:
> > 2) even if the ABS system fails it still works just like non-ABS
> > brakes. unless >the vacuum (power assisted) system fails or the brake
> > line is cut, or (very unlikely) the piston sticks open, the brakes
> > will work just fine.
> ABS - American Bull Shi...
> I have noted one difficulty with ABS, and that is its failure to
> operate on snow and ice. Since I live in Southern California, I do
> not get that much snow but, in any quick application of my Mustang's
> breaks, on snow covered roads, they always seem to lock up. Well, the
> pumping action occurs but, at each application of the pump, I notice
> wheel lock-up. There is no stopping.
Yah. Try a proper skid pad with ABS. You'll wind up 270 degrees from
where you were being trained to go. If you're lucky. Did my skid pad
training at Sears Point in the 70s. I don't want a machine second
guessing my judgement when I'm about to die. (If I fuck up, OK, I fuck
up. I don't want to guess right and die anyway! Born and raised in
Los Angeles, I had my initial driver training during a nasty winter in
New Hampshire -- I know how to handle a skid, and ABS systems don't
have a clue where the steering wheel is pointing -- a programming task
for the current generation, at least those who didn't learn physics
from Star Wars and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
Received on Mon Apr 05 1999 - 20:39:35 BST