wrecked the stang

04DarkShadowGT said:

Im not sure I understand how ABS caused your particular crash, ABS wont cause you to lock up the wheels and will not greatly reduce your stopping distance at all, and in the rain will help reduce it.

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when a car rotates past the point where counter steering will save it you need you:

A) lock the tires until the car approaches straight with the front wheels still in the full opposite lock, and allow the tires to turn and steer out of it. simplle with practice.

B) do a Tony Stewart... and spin the tires hard for braking when the car is backwards.

i don't have the skill to do a Tony Stewart, but i can 360 the car and save it at lower speeds.

when the ABS allowed the front and rear tires to rotate backwards in ABS mode, the car rolled across the lane and into the rail.

if the rotational speed/rate is low enough and you have no side to side speed, locking them also keeps youin your current lane, but you end up pointing mostly the way you came.

ABS prevented me from saving the car the only way i know how. spinning the tires would only have hydroplaned them more.


shorter braking distance was not the goal. -bill

right.


i drive in such a fashion that things like this happen. it helps to expect the car to react a certainway. i don't have a problem modulating brakes at the limit. hitting the brakes should have sped up the rotation.

i'm going to look into deleting ABS.