ABS

• Subject: ABS
• From: tom.tcimpidis@domain.elided (Tom Tcimpidis)
• Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:35:51 GMT

Why ABS?  Because, when you are not on a track under controlled
conditions, it offers many advantages to human-only control:

1) ABS can pump the brakes 15 times a second.  A human can't.

2) ABS can respond in milliseconds.  A typical human has a reaction time
of 1/2 a second to a panic stop lock up if he/she is very good.  At 60
Mph, that's 44 feet.

3) ABS can respond to and optimize braking to each wheel under
left-right split mu and front-rear apportioning situations. A human has
only one control input.

Personally, I would never consider buying any vehicle that did not have
ABS.

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