Re: [DML] Re: DeLo's In Year 'Round Use

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, but when some asshole in a BMW crosses 3 lanes to jump in front of you
and get into the left lane, then another idiot decides to stop at the yellow 
instead
of flooring it like everyone else does, then the BMW stops short with his 
$135K car's
braking system.... then your 20+ year old brake technology simply locks the 
wheels,
then you begin to hydroplane and actually PICK UP speed, and even if you 
turn the wheel
and nothing happens...... THEN WHAT?
I was only going 30 MPH on a concrete road, "Beltline" in Dallas known which
has one of the most accident prone intersections in the USA (as studied by 
insurance companies).

I am not talking about ideal driving conditions with Ms. Daisy, in a panic 
stop this is
not a good car to be in.
It will slide and then jerk you into another direction.
(Like I said, watch BTTF1 and see the car do it)
I am guessing that this is because the pressure is not evenly distributed 
among all the
brack cylinders, as pressure releases it allows one wheel to spin and gain 
traction,
if you are attempting to turn out of the way and the wheel is turned a 
little it will
grab and jerk you in that direction.
This actually helped me once.
Some guy came to a quick dead stop on a 55 MPH little road, I slammed the 
brakes
and started sliding, at the last second before I hit him, the car jerked to 
the right hard and steered
me around the truck and into the shoulder.

Divine intervention or faulty engineering saved my ass.

I have gotten used to driving cars with ABS, my Taurus is such a good car 
that I can not
make it go out of control if I try.
I have tried to do some age old brake tricks but nothing works.
You can slam the brakes and steer like normal and come to a quick controlled 
stop.
There is a lot of difference in todays cars compared to the one's of a few 
decades ago.
- Videobob

>From: "Owen @ Aerodrome" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [DML] Re: DeLo's In Year 'Round Use
>Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:31:32 -0800
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>
> > Yes it's true, I do drive like a mad man, but that was not the case when 
>I
> > was only
> > going 30 MPH, and slid about 50 feet into the back of a BMW with zero
> > control of the
> > car in heavy rain.
> > Bottom line, leave the car at home in the rain and take the OTHER car.
>
>No offence meant, but I think I'm gonna go with "learn to drive properly in 
>the rain, since it'll come in handy in other situations, too."
>
>At 30mi/hr, a 3-second following distance (the minimum sane distance in wet 
>weather) equates to 132 feet, giving plenty of room to stop, even if you do 
>slide.  A fifty-foot following distance might have qualified for "mad mad" 
>status after all.  :-)
>
>Regards,
>Owen
>
>VIN 10470 "1 21 GW"
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