nobby
Old Timey Diesel Guy
Just curious do you think your brain to foot can compete with the ABS in ANTI-Lockup, as far as steering is concerned?.....I was taught to drive in an OLD rambler W/ 3 on the tree, and was told that, "As much as you don't want too you HAVE too let off the brake to "Try" to steer out of a collision".......I dont think those 63 ramblers had ABS, did they?:skep::hihi:
ABS=Good, in my book anyway........But there are times when, "Locking them up," would come in handy.
No, and I think great white has saved me keystrokes in my response. I do though also feel though that for one that is used to threshold braking that ABS is not seconds better though.
As already stated the ABS on my Burb in its current state works fine for me, however I also recognize the frustration as mirrored by Kenny on lets say poorly set up or faulty ABS systems.
As to the often quoted argument of modern vehicles etc dumming down which I somewhat subscribe to, however as far as ABS is concerned I take a different view. My thought being that before ABS most drivers were not threshold brakers and that because of its counterintuitive nature most still even back then just jammed on the brakes and prayed. Also seems to me that a lot of the people then and now in the panic of the situation do not look for a way out by steering. It would be interesting to see a quantitative statistical analysis of pre versus post ABS accidents, my guess is though that with the vast increase of drivers and those that really should not be driving one could not really accurately analyse it.
It is interesting to note though that the 2 second rule for distance is changed to 3 seconds now because as I understand it in the dry ABS vehicles are being rear ended by older non ABS because they brake better in that situation.
Cheers
Nobby