5 Apr
1999
5 Apr
'99
10:38 p.m.
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
Are you sure of that, Tony. I seem to recall Stirling Moss and other
latter day GP drivers agreeing that an ABS system was superior to human
performance.
-tony
We don't
need to bring moralizing into the discussion. Most of us already
relegate a lot of life's decisions, including some life-critical ones, to
computers every day.
Or are you the kind of person that refuses to buy cars with antilock brake
systems?
Well, I don't drive yet, but when I do, I sure as hell won't have a car
with ABS.
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. No thanks. I'd rather trust my skill (and thus
have to learn to do things
properly) than trust a microprocessor.
Surely it fails safe.
- don