BIG 4 SUED FOR ABS STOPPING DISTANCES!
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Re: BIG 4 SUED FOR ABS STOPPING DISTANCES!
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
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: If you don't have confidence in your ability to control your car,
: feel you may panic and freeze then by all means buy ABS for your car. I
: just hope I don't have to make an emergency stop in front of you.
I don't want to sound like an old-fart-know-it-all but I have more miles on
anti-lock and non-anti-lock than 5 average people might have in a lifetime
(about 1.7 million miles) on every conceivable road condition. I agree, ABS
is NOT the shortest possible method of stopping - threshold breaking is.
Having said that, I am a proponent of ABS.
Anyone on the road with the mindset of "I can go anywhere, I have all wheel
drive" will end up in the same ditch as the guy that thinks "I can stop on
this icy road, I have ABS". In my opinion, ABS is best used in avoidance
situations on slippery surfaces. The vehicle will adjust and respond to
changing forces when avoiding an obstacle... once you've avoided the
obstacle you may not need to stop! On dry surfaces, you can't beat threshold
breaking.
Drivers should be better educated about avoidance... I have seen way too
many rear-enders on the highway when the driver could have veered left or
right to avoid collision (not to mention, leave more room to stop).
-Brian
news:3FD6A7D2.84B9D8CE@***.net...
: If you don't have confidence in your ability to control your car,
: feel you may panic and freeze then by all means buy ABS for your car. I
: just hope I don't have to make an emergency stop in front of you.
I don't want to sound like an old-fart-know-it-all but I have more miles on
anti-lock and non-anti-lock than 5 average people might have in a lifetime
(about 1.7 million miles) on every conceivable road condition. I agree, ABS
is NOT the shortest possible method of stopping - threshold breaking is.
Having said that, I am a proponent of ABS.
Anyone on the road with the mindset of "I can go anywhere, I have all wheel
drive" will end up in the same ditch as the guy that thinks "I can stop on
this icy road, I have ABS". In my opinion, ABS is best used in avoidance
situations on slippery surfaces. The vehicle will adjust and respond to
changing forces when avoiding an obstacle... once you've avoided the
obstacle you may not need to stop! On dry surfaces, you can't beat threshold
breaking.
Drivers should be better educated about avoidance... I have seen way too
many rear-enders on the highway when the driver could have veered left or
right to avoid collision (not to mention, leave more room to stop).
-Brian
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Re: BIG 4 SUED FOR ABS STOPPING DISTANCES!
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:3FD6A7D2.84B9D8CE@***.net...
: If you don't have confidence in your ability to control your car,
: feel you may panic and freeze then by all means buy ABS for your car. I
: just hope I don't have to make an emergency stop in front of you.
I don't want to sound like an old-fart-know-it-all but I have more miles on
anti-lock and non-anti-lock than 5 average people might have in a lifetime
(about 1.7 million miles) on every conceivable road condition. I agree, ABS
is NOT the shortest possible method of stopping - threshold breaking is.
Having said that, I am a proponent of ABS.
Anyone on the road with the mindset of "I can go anywhere, I have all wheel
drive" will end up in the same ditch as the guy that thinks "I can stop on
this icy road, I have ABS". In my opinion, ABS is best used in avoidance
situations on slippery surfaces. The vehicle will adjust and respond to
changing forces when avoiding an obstacle... once you've avoided the
obstacle you may not need to stop! On dry surfaces, you can't beat threshold
breaking.
Drivers should be better educated about avoidance... I have seen way too
many rear-enders on the highway when the driver could have veered left or
right to avoid collision (not to mention, leave more room to stop).
-Brian
news:3FD6A7D2.84B9D8CE@***.net...
: If you don't have confidence in your ability to control your car,
: feel you may panic and freeze then by all means buy ABS for your car. I
: just hope I don't have to make an emergency stop in front of you.
I don't want to sound like an old-fart-know-it-all but I have more miles on
anti-lock and non-anti-lock than 5 average people might have in a lifetime
(about 1.7 million miles) on every conceivable road condition. I agree, ABS
is NOT the shortest possible method of stopping - threshold breaking is.
Having said that, I am a proponent of ABS.
Anyone on the road with the mindset of "I can go anywhere, I have all wheel
drive" will end up in the same ditch as the guy that thinks "I can stop on
this icy road, I have ABS". In my opinion, ABS is best used in avoidance
situations on slippery surfaces. The vehicle will adjust and respond to
changing forces when avoiding an obstacle... once you've avoided the
obstacle you may not need to stop! On dry surfaces, you can't beat threshold
breaking.
Drivers should be better educated about avoidance... I have seen way too
many rear-enders on the highway when the driver could have veered left or
right to avoid collision (not to mention, leave more room to stop).
-Brian
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Re: BIG 4 SUED FOR ABS STOPPING DISTANCES!
"L.W. (ßill) ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
news:3FD6A7D2.84B9D8CE@***.net...
: If you don't have confidence in your ability to control your car,
: feel you may panic and freeze then by all means buy ABS for your car. I
: just hope I don't have to make an emergency stop in front of you.
I don't want to sound like an old-fart-know-it-all but I have more miles on
anti-lock and non-anti-lock than 5 average people might have in a lifetime
(about 1.7 million miles) on every conceivable road condition. I agree, ABS
is NOT the shortest possible method of stopping - threshold breaking is.
Having said that, I am a proponent of ABS.
Anyone on the road with the mindset of "I can go anywhere, I have all wheel
drive" will end up in the same ditch as the guy that thinks "I can stop on
this icy road, I have ABS". In my opinion, ABS is best used in avoidance
situations on slippery surfaces. The vehicle will adjust and respond to
changing forces when avoiding an obstacle... once you've avoided the
obstacle you may not need to stop! On dry surfaces, you can't beat threshold
breaking.
Drivers should be better educated about avoidance... I have seen way too
many rear-enders on the highway when the driver could have veered left or
right to avoid collision (not to mention, leave more room to stop).
-Brian
news:3FD6A7D2.84B9D8CE@***.net...
: If you don't have confidence in your ability to control your car,
: feel you may panic and freeze then by all means buy ABS for your car. I
: just hope I don't have to make an emergency stop in front of you.
I don't want to sound like an old-fart-know-it-all but I have more miles on
anti-lock and non-anti-lock than 5 average people might have in a lifetime
(about 1.7 million miles) on every conceivable road condition. I agree, ABS
is NOT the shortest possible method of stopping - threshold breaking is.
Having said that, I am a proponent of ABS.
Anyone on the road with the mindset of "I can go anywhere, I have all wheel
drive" will end up in the same ditch as the guy that thinks "I can stop on
this icy road, I have ABS". In my opinion, ABS is best used in avoidance
situations on slippery surfaces. The vehicle will adjust and respond to
changing forces when avoiding an obstacle... once you've avoided the
obstacle you may not need to stop! On dry surfaces, you can't beat threshold
breaking.
Drivers should be better educated about avoidance... I have seen way too
many rear-enders on the highway when the driver could have veered left or
right to avoid collision (not to mention, leave more room to stop).
-Brian
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Re: BIG 4 SUED FOR ABS STOPPING DISTANCES!
That wasn't a slam on Engineers, there are 4 of them in my family.
I am used to explaining jokes to them.
It was a slam on GM's advertising strategy of "professional grade
engineering" as something new.
Similar to some razor company's new ad touting Titanium as one of the
"sharpest" metals. Nowhere in my machinist's or metalurgical texts does it
list metals by "sharpness".
--
Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California
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Re: BIG 4 SUED FOR ABS STOPPING DISTANCES!
That wasn't a slam on Engineers, there are 4 of them in my family.
I am used to explaining jokes to them.
It was a slam on GM's advertising strategy of "professional grade
engineering" as something new.
Similar to some razor company's new ad touting Titanium as one of the
"sharpest" metals. Nowhere in my machinist's or metalurgical texts does it
list metals by "sharpness".
--
Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California