5 Apr
1999
5 Apr
'99
4:37 p.m.
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
The reasons are that (a) I am not going to trust my
life, and the lives
of others to an undocumented system that could possibly fail, (b) a good
driver can stop a car in a shorter distance than an ABS system can under
some conditions and (c) if it does fail you have to use the brakes
differently than you do with a working ABS system.
As far as I know, a failure of the computer can't cause the brakes to
fail. They would simply not 'pulse' as they should to prevent locking of
the wheels (what is that, by the way? a binding of the suspension?). Of
course, there should be a light to tell you about such a failure. Then
again, I'm one of those people who think that if it's new, it will be
outlasted by something that is already 30 years old.
No thanks. I'd rather trust my skill (and thus have
to learn to do things
properly) than trust a microprocessor.
Unless of course you made it ;)
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)