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- From: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Bob Haar)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: More on anti-lock brakes
- Message-ID: <93669@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:35:38 GMT
- References: <ILH.92Nov18154234@winnie-the-pooh.lcs.mit.edu>
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- In article 92Nov18154234@winnie-the-pooh.lcs.mit.edu, ilh@lcs.mit.edu (Lee Hetherington) writes:
- |>This may be stupid but that never stopped me...
-
- The only stupid question is one that you don't ask because you
- are afraid of looking stupid.
-
- |>Maybe 3 and 4 circuit ABS systems are not necessarily better. Let's
- |>say your front right tire starts slipping and ABS releases the brake
- |>on it. If ONLY that brake is released, wouldn't your car want to pull
- |>to left?
-
- A couple of points:
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- First, an ABS system doesn't just "release the brake". When a wheel
- is determined to be locking up, the brake pressure if dropped for a
- short period of time. Then the pressure is restored. If the wheel
- starts to slip again, the process repeats. This pulsing can happen
- at the rate of 10 to 20 times per second.
-
- The end result of this is that when a wheel is in a greatly reduced
- traction situation, you still get some braking effect. But if that
- wheel had been allowed to lock up completely (i.e. 100% slip),
- you get almost no braking effect. So in the one-wheel-on-ice
- situation, that one wheel actually gets more braking with ABS
- active than it would without ABS (assuming enough brake force
- to lock up the wheel).
-
- Second, the main goal of ABS is to maintain control. When a wheel
- comes under active ABS control, there is some portion of the
- available traction that is preserved for steering and cornering
- forces. Thus, even if you have uneven braking forces, you are
- beter able to compensate for it.
-
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- Robert Haar InterNet : rhaar@gmr.com
- Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research and Environmental Staff
- DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, everything in this note is
- personal opinion, not an official statement of General Motors Corp.
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