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Totally agreed. Why can't he just slam the brakes? I thought they are supposed to be stronger than the engine?!

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• olliej 9y ago
  Electronic control - it’s not a direct physical connection anymore. Follow on for mechanics/mechanical engineers: if the accelerator is down and you’re already moving, can the brakes stop a car? It seems like you’d either not stop or “break” abs and force the wheels to lock which is also bad at speed...
  • vegardx 9y ago
    This is complete nonsense, go into any car without starting it and pump the breaks.
    • Skunkleton 9y ago
      Its not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_by_wire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_by_wire
  • tialaramex 9y ago
    The ABS system is based on monitoring the way the wheels move and comparing it to how a car can move, in particular since the car is either moving or not, if just one wheel is stopping but the others are not, that's clearly wrong and the ABS tries to prevent that by reducing braking for that wheel. Going from some minimum speed to zero on all wheels is fine, that means now the car is stopped (or, for example, you went off a cliff and are actually now flying through the air - ABS can't help you in this case).