In that same thread, another poster mentioned that his father routinely did that very thing.
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Exactly! Therefore the tire with the least traction controls the braking. That works fine on bare tar... not so much in other conditions when you really need all of your braking capability. The main purpose of ABS seems to be to compensate for people's inability or unwillingness to use safe driving habits.
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Probably true, when you look at the statistics. But even with safe driving habits, things like deer and snow sledders flyng across a road in a blind spot can make for some unforseen emergency stops.
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No, it doesn't. That's what "independently" means... it eases up the braking force on the wheel that's slipping, and NOT on the ones that are not.
Enough about ABS! Todays topic; people who don't know or follow basic traffic laws. 50+ years ago my driver's ed instructor told us that traffic laws arw merely enforced courtesy. Is that such a difficult concept to grasp?
I was driving through a school zone today when the driver 5 cars up (car B) wanted to make a left turn. A car (A) in the oncoming lane was turning onto the same road. Meanwhile there was a pickup at a stop sign, waiting to turn onto the main road.
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A
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It should have been simple; car A makes a right turn. Car B makes a left turn, then the rest of us proceed on our way, after which the pickup pulls out in back of me and goes along his business. Instead everyone stopped- waiting for (???)
Then the truck slowly pulls out from the stop sign. By that time two more vehicles pull out behind me... and we're in a 15mph school zone.
At that point I turned onto a side road and went around the whole shenagan.
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I was driving through a school zone today when the driver 5 cars up (car B) wanted to make a left turn. A car (A) in the oncoming lane was turning onto the same road. Meanwhile there was a pickup at a stop sign, waiting to turn onto the main road.
:
P :
A
‐‐---------------------- --------------------------
# ###B
It should have been simple; car A makes a right turn. Car B makes a left turn, then the rest of us proceed on our way, after which the pickup pulls out in back of me and goes along his business. Instead everyone stopped- waiting for (???)
Then the truck slowly pulls out from the stop sign. By that time two more vehicles pull out behind me... and we're in a 15mph school zone.
At that point I turned onto a side road and went around the whole shenagan.
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Actually, it equalizes the braking bwtween all 4 tires. If one wheel is on ice and 3 are on tar, you may as well open your door and drag your feet.
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People using the shoulder to drive during an accident back up (people don't seem to understand that two vehicles can't occupy the same space without repercussions.)
NJ drivers crashing while more drivers do daredevil tricks to bypass the backup, driving on shoulders, full speed up and down business driveways etc.
Why I dislike driving on route 1 in NJ, it's always a free for all.
NJ drivers crashing while more drivers do daredevil tricks to bypass the backup, driving on shoulders, full speed up and down business driveways etc.
Why I dislike driving on route 1 in NJ, it's always a free for all.
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Maybe in the '90s. For the last 10+ years almost all cars sold in the USA have 4 sensor/4 channel ABS. This means that each wheel is independently controlled.
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NJ earns high marks, on any list of the most-obnoxious drivers in the country. In fact, they’d be the shining star example, if they didn’t sit right in the shadow of Connecticut.
I always look at surviving I-95 thru CT as the hell one must pass through, on the way to anywhere north of here. If that state doesn’t have the worst drivers in the entire union, I’d be amazed.
What’s amusing is that NJ’s roads are so infinitely better than ours, in nearly every way… yet they still seem unable to navigate them without regularly bumping into one-another.