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Better tires and driver training
Posted by Stephen Goldberger [Email] (more from Stephen Goldberger) on Wed, 10 May 2006 07:03:04
In Reply to: Re: Big Brake kit from....., Dean, Tue, 9 May 2006 14:21:17
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Many people in emergency situations fail to apply full pressure to the brake pedal for the first second or two. Benz pioneered an add-on to their ABS software to make the car "apply full brake pressure" upon sudden brake application. Saab has a mechanical device that does mostly the same thing (disconcerting as it works by increasing mechanical advantage, bringing the brake pedal nearly to the floor on an emergency stop.) You can achieve the same result with an attitude adjustment. Don't try "threshhold braking" in an emergency. Even race car drivers (who threshhold brake several times per lap) do it poorly in an emergency. Slam the pedal to the floor as quickly as possible and let the ABS take care of business. Remember that at highway speed, you are travelling over 100 ft/sec. Every tenth of a second of delay is almost a car length. The delay time for an incandescent light to illuminate is 150 milliseconds - that IS a car length. Brake hard at first - you can always let up if things aren't as bad as they looked, and by then you're travelling only half as fast. It also tends to get the guy behind you on board (see "Saabs do save lives" above. Or below)
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