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If you are lucky (or skilled) enough to max out your traction, and if you do not need to steer while braking, I’ve found avoiding the ABS will get you stopped m
by zaroth 8y ago
If you are lucky (or skilled) enough to max out your traction, and if you do not need to steer while braking, I’ve found avoiding the ABS will get you stopped much faster.
The ABS pulsing is designed to allow steering input while braking, which obviously means you are not devoting 100% of your traction to stopping.
A properly functioning ABS should be virtually impossible to beat with a single brake pedal, since it is modulating each wheel independently.
But that doesn’t stop me from being paranoid of “ABS drift” where modulating kicks in so hard that the car just seems to keep coasting forward on and on... you sit there with your foot hard on the pedal wondering if the firmware is just confused.
- mrguyorama 8y agoHow often are you engaging emergency braking? The last time I remember activating ABS was on a dry highway onramp due to a lapse in attention while in a fairly old commodity car, and yet despite going faster than I should have been going, the car stopped in an ASTONISHINGLY short distance.