On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Hal Duston [email protected] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:06:09AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 23:25, Hal Duston [email protected] wrote: consumer cars. ABS is forbidden by regulation, which almost sounds like they want to have crashes...
I'm guessing that it's a zero-day kind of thing. One car with ABS in a pack going 200mph could make a bad thing far worse when it comes time to do the braking. If they all had it -- like, the NASCAR gods issue a fiat stating that they will all have it, next season, by regulation -- that would be different, and I would not be surprised to live to see that day. I would engineer the whole track to turn on everyone's ABS simultaneously on a radio signal, possibly mechanically triggered by some kind of radio signal ceasing to arrive for a few ms from the first crashing race car. And NASCAR would be safer, and there would be cultural acceptance of automatic braking systems to prevent tailgating on highways, and when a white-tailed deer wanders onto I-70 it would have a better chance of making it to the other side.
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