we wanted to get too arcane, better to make sure that our friend understood.
>> To put the record straight, early ABS systems could be outperformed
>> (slightly) in the dry by a skilled driver using cadence braking (but of
>> course most people panic and lock everything up so they were still much
>> better in vast majority of real-life situations). Later systems with
faster
>> responses and cycle rates are pretty much as good as the best human
input.
>> Curiously, one of the very few times that locking your brakes actually
>> benefits stopping distances is in snow as the build up of snow in front
of
>> the wheels will slow you down. This does NOT work on ice! As I said in
the
>> first post, go try for yourself.
>It`s still possible to get shorter braking distances in the dry than
>what current road-ABS gives you, they are not setup for optimum braking,
>they are setup for optimum braking/stability (within that particular
>sytems limits of course), hence there is a well known trick amongst
>Group-N racers to eliminate about half of the pulses from the wheel to
>the ABS system, thus shortenng braking distances, and let the driver
>think about stability :-)
>Beers and cheers
>(uncle) Goy