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The dangers of DRLs 4641

The dangers of DRLs 4642
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:14:28 -0400, James C. Reeves What experts? What report? No, just not dumb enough to mistake a few...

Chris read the report at the highway safety site that stated that the experts have not concluded why ABS has produced any benefit in the real worls. But here we go, Chris has it all figured out. Apparently he is the only one in the entire world that knows why...even befiore the experts that have been studying this do. What a truly amazing fella this Chris person is!

Don't brake hard...Huh? If you mean don't lock the wheels, yes.

You'd better damn site maintain control. Maintaining your ability to maneuver it's absolutely paramount! You are a sane person...right?

Last I checked, running into a obstacle is counted as a accident. And if you *don't* maintain control (as you seem to be saying is a function that should be secondary), that is EXACTLY what you will do! Without maintaining control, the obstacle is toast. With control, one can head off of the road if that is the best place to go.

You're going to need to come up with data on that. About 6 years ago, in the study I read, this wasn't so. ABS did not necessarily have shorter stopping distances (depening on type of road surface, condition etc.)

To conclude. The entire paragraph has serious logic errors in it. If the results obtained are the same comparing people using "old school" braking methods on non ABS vehicles with the way people typically use ABS equipped vehicles, then what is the advantage of ABS again? The delta between the two is zero. Advantage neither! (or so it seems)




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