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- From: jdouglas@MITRE.org (Jason Douglas)
- Subject: Re: How anti-lock brakes work (may start an interesting discussion)
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:54:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.183531.24876@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- sankar@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Sriram Sankar) writes:
- > 2. Can the pumping be isolated to just one wheel and leave the braking
- effect on other
- > wheels as is even if they are on the same hydraulic circuit?
-
- Since brake "Pumping" is the modulation of brake fluid pressure, all
- wheels on a circuit are pumped together.
-
- > 4. Do cars differ in the number of wheels on which anti-lock is
- supported?
-
- Look at the brake control unit on a high end German car and you will see
- separate brake lines for each wheel. As noted in another posting, there
- are more affordable systems that operate only on the rear wheels (Ford
- pick-up trucks, for example) and there are systems that group the rear
- wheels on one circuit.
-
- >Suppose the right wheels go into the shoulder which is icy, and the
- brakes >are applied. Both the right wheels skid and the other two wheels
- are still >firmly gripped in asphalt. What if the right wheel brakes are
- pumped by the >anti-locking >feature? This effectively causes all four
- wheel brakes to be >pumped (note I assumed answer to 2 was NO). My guess
- is that this will >severely decrease >the braking effect as compared to
- not pumping the brakes >at all.
-
- >6. Do you believe this?
-
- It certainly seems to make sense that independent control of each wheel
- will result in shorter stops: why reduce the breaking of wheels which are
- not skidding ? The only logical reason is to reduce the cost of the
- system. BTW, these reduced cost systems probably have a much better
- cost/benefit ratio than the fully independent.
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