ABS monitors each wheel independently, applying braking as needed to keep
each wheel from lockup. That is why it may increase stopping distance,
compared to say, an expert driver locking up a wheel but countersteering.
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 10/16/06 12:59 AM, Paul Hunt at paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> So what *does* stop ABS throwing your car into a ditch or under a truck if
> one front wheel has grip and the other doesn't? I accepted the point about
> the calipers being as outboard as they are, because although torque-steer
> was nothing to do with it maybe the position of the wheel bearings (and
> hence eventually the brake disc) relative to the centre of the tyre contact
> patch was. If so, steering, and almost certainly suspension geometry, *are*
> wholly relevant.
>
> PaulH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> I am not sure that this clarifies anything. My point was that steering is
>> entirely irrelevant to the question. A vehicle entirely without steering
>> (say, a 4-wheel trailer) under braking, suffering a brake failure on one
>> side, will pull strongly to the other side. This effect has nothing to do
>> with "inboard steering centers"; conversely, steering geometry cannot in
>> any
>> way counteract this tendency.
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