[Oeva-list] Anti-lock brakes.

[Steve's Account]

> From: 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.
>

If you'd like to see this problem, in spades, try stopping on a dry gravel
road. Your stopping distance with anti-lock can be 200% of the distance
needed for non-anti-lock.

It's a known "feature". ;-(

Steve