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RE: Braking technique

To: "washburn" <washburn@dwave.net>, <richj50@bit-net.com>
Subject: RE: Braking technique
From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 19:49:17 -0800
> > the brake pedal as hard as you can thereby engaging the ABS and causing
> > your tires to emit little puffs of smoke as they skid 1 foot at a time
> > between ABS pulses,
>
> Do some ABS cars really do this?  I, being unincumbered by the modern
> miracles of electro-mechanical assisted braking, assumed that the brake
> modulation was a tad more discreet than this.  I'm thinking that you
> could probably do a better job of it yourself if in fact you are getting
> little 1 foot skid marks.  Otherwise, them factory electrons move pretty
> fast!

Even 30 mph = 44 feet/second.  How much faster than 1/50 second do you
expect to be able to clench/unclench the pistons?

KeS


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