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Old 01-05-2007, 01:04 PM   #20
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Sammy, you are mistaken, the abs senses a skid and begins its pulsing and won't stop pulsing until it senses that all skidding has stopped. Once this happens your stopping power depends on when the wheel with the least traction stops sliding. Try this test if you ever have a car in the snow(and you are confident that you can do it safely). Drive with one side of the car on a plowed surface with good traction and the other side of the car on a slippery part and apply the brakes to activate the abs. You'll see it takes significantly longer to stop than if the wheels on dry pavement could utilize all their traction. (some abs systems are better at this test than others) The same principles are true on a race track when cornering. if you hit a small bump on a wheel on the inside of your turning circle and set off the abs you can decrease the ablity of your car to brake and fairly skilled drivers can do this better than the abs which is why they don't put abs on race cars.
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