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- From: tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen)
- Subject: Re: How anti-lock brakes work (may start an interesting discussion)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.213945.8370@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Nov16.183531.24876@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov20.145407.15733@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 21:39:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.145407.15733@linus.mitre.org> jdouglas@MITRE.org (Jason Douglas) writes:
- >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.
-
- i can think of another reason: reduction of yaw. if one brake on an
- axle is released while the other is still being applied, the forces
- will not be equal and you will get some rotation.
- whether maximum braking is preferable to reduction of yaw is another question.
- -teddy
-