ABS - or is it Pure BS

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Tue Apr 6 17:41:31 1999

>*Having had decades of extensive driving during the long cold winters in
>*western Canada, Qebec and Ontario , I would consider myself a quite skilled
>*slippery road driver. The worst thing you can do when you go into a skid is
>*lock your brakes. The best is to turn into the skid and use your
>accellerator
>*and steering to bring it back under control. I would rather have any brake
>*action under my control and hope I can steer out of it without using
>them.There
>*are courses up here which teach this technique. ABS seems just damnright
>*dangerous to me,
>
>What happens when that novice (or anyone for that matter) who is used to
>ABS,
>when the ABS system fails?

The novice has no business in snow or ice, they will slide off the road and
crash.

ABS is not a common item to fail. Worry about bad tires, sticky throttles
(my Mustang is a load of fun when the throttle sticks wide open), drunk
drivers, bad lug nuts, falling rocks, bad radio reception, etc. and forget
about ABS it just isn't some big problem.
Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 17:41:31 BST