On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 17:25 US/Pacific, Jeffrey Macko wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
>
>> A similar effect is of value in the dry. If you are threshold braking
>> while the car is undergoing ANY lateral acceleration; you have two
>> choices
>> - you can brake to the traction limit of the outside wheel, which will
>> cause the inside wheel to lock/enter ABS, or you can brake to the
>> traction
>> limit of the inside wheel, which will cause the car to slow down less
>> rapidly. * Without ABS, most people choose option B, because
>> flatspotting
>> tires gets expensive, and because locking the inside wheel upsets the
>> car
>> even on dry pavement. With ABS, most people choose option A, braking
>> to
>> the threshold of the outside wheel and allowing ABS to handle the
>> minor
>> locking on the inside. However, some ABS systems are crude enough
>> that
>> even this amount of locking is counterproductive.
>
> Don't most modern ABS systems control each wheel as a separate ABS
> system?
All I'm familiar with treat each front wheel as a separate channel.
Some treat both rear wheels as one.
> Newer BMW's have stablity control where they can modulate braking on
> each
> wheel independantly. Wouldn't this system carry over so that the
> above
> isn't an issue. Anyone know?
Please clarify your question. "The above" addresses a number of
different points.
KeS
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