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- From: edh@wheeler.unr.edu (Ed Hackett)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: AutoNotes #7
- Message-ID: <5228@equinox.unr.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 21:33:19 GMT
- References: <4554.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- Sender: news@equinox.unr.edu
- Reply-To: edh@wheeler.unr.edu (Ed Hackett)
- Organization: Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada
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- In article <4554.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
-
- > Lucas' new ABS system is supposed to be lighter, smaller, and cheaper
- >than contemporary units, and will incorporate a "gee, why didn't *I*
- >think of that?" feature - a built-in hill-older for manual transmission
- >cars. It's about time!
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- I think that it's about time _again_ would be more appropriate.
- Studebaker introduced an optional hill holder clutch in their 1947
- models. I had a 1950 model (bullet nose) that had this feature.
- It worked like a charm. Push in the clutch and the brake,
- set the hill holder and take your foot off the brake. As long as you
- held the clutch down, the brake would stay set. The brake released
- as you let the clutch out.
-
- This car also had anti-lock brakes (they were not big enough to
- lock the wheels) and traction control (not enough power to spin the
- wheels, even in snow). It would seat 6 six foot tall cowboys,
- wearing their hats, and got 27 mpg.
-
- It always amazes me how that now it takes a $1000-$2000 dollar
- computer based system to do what was done 46 years ago with a simple
- mechanical linkage and a ball type check valve in the master
- cylinder.
-
- Ed Hackett edh@wheeler.wrc.unr.edu The Desert Research Institute
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