[Oeva-list] Prius brake problems?

[Theoldcars at aol.com]

I have had the following problem with many antilock brakes. 
 
Every time you go over a wet manhole cover or even a wet slick painted 
area. When the one wheel hits before another or one by itself with the brakes 
on. The few hundreds of a second the wheel would have locked up triggers the 
antilock brakes to kick in. The vehicle stops much slower because the problem 
the system senses is only for a couple of feet. The system delays the 
vehicle stopping by rapidly pulsing on all the wheels and this vastly extends 
your stopping distance. Just about 100% of the time it is reacting to an event 
that would not have been a control problem and I hate it. This always seems 
to happen at slow speeds and it always seems to do it at a critical time. 
Like 20 or 30 feet before your going to hit something. 
 
I am not a tailgater but when I am coming to a stop I have expectations 
that I will come to a stop in a predictable way.
 
Don
 
In a message dated 2/4/2010 12:00:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
oeva-list-request at oeva.org writes:

1. Re: Prius brake problems? (gfifield at onlinenw.com)


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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:46:03 -0800 (PST)
From: gfifield at onlinenw.com
Subject: Re: [Oeva-list] Prius brake problems?
To: "Myles Twete" <matwete at comcast.net>
Cc: oeva-list at oeva.org
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Apple's co-founder Wozniak's Prius problems:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100203/bs_afp/usjapanautotoyotarecallapple

http://bit.ly/9z3VJr


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> "report suggests is that sometimes the braking system in the Prius can
> stop
> working on bumpy and slippery roads."
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> http://www.mibz.com/5265-new-trouble-for-toyota-prius-brake-problems.html
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> Toyota's now looking at a Prius recall for this.
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> -mt

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