> > >Without FF, you can slip and slide to your hearts content
> How can you tell that the wheels are either
> locked up, or spinning, from the pedals? I think you
> can't tell either. In a real car, there are a lot
> of other cues telling you what the wheels are doing.
My best guess would be that at the point where the wheels are starting
to block, and the brake disc is no longer giving friction to the pads,
that the force that you feel when pressing the pedal would lessen
somewhat. In a computer generated model this would probably be the
best way to simulate the feeling of pressing harder and harder on the
pedal, getting more and more decelleration, until you reach the point
where pressing even more has no effect (and no further decelleration
occurs as the wheels are blocking.) IN that case you would have a
sensory input of getting to the point of maximal
resistance/decelleration, without crossing the line of lessened
resistance, a sign that the wheels are starting to block. Of course, as
you say, there are other clues when slamming the brakes on a real
vehicle (car, motorbike, pushbike).
Dolle DOlf
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