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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Speed doesn't kill.

It's the sudden stop that kills you.

[–] agitatedpotato 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Be careful, or politicians are gonna draft a bill preventing your from applying too much braking force too quickly. Thats about in line with the logic on this bill.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Next up, skin cancer:

Suns don't kill people. People with suns kill people.

[–] shalafi 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Funny enough, they already did long ago. It's call ABS. :)

[–] agitatedpotato 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Doesn't abs make you stop sooner than both slamming on locking braks or manually pumping them? Idk sounds like more of a sudden stop to me, congress gonna ban ABS next

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 8 points 7 months ago

ABS also shortens your stopping distance. At least good ABS does, originally it sucked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ABS is designed to prevent the wheels from locking up and skidding. This reduces the total braking force applied a bit, because it's quickly pulsing the brakes, but is safer because you still have a bit of steering control.

ABS does the same thing as pumping your brakes, just faster. And you don't need to and probably shouldn't pump the brakes on a car with ABS.

[–] agitatedpotato 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Skidding also reduces braking force though, just from a perspective of car vs road, not break pad vs rotor. Unless im mistaken, and aside from control, anti lock breaks bring the car to a stop quicker, presuming traction break.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You are correct. Anti-lock brakes emulate cadence braking, and are more effective than threshold braking, and far more effective than locking your brakes

[–] batmaniam 3 points 7 months ago

ABS/pumping the brakes is implemented because sliding friction is less that static friction. It's why you can nudge something on a slope to start sliding and it doesn't stop but would have happily sat there before hand.

Your car wheels experience static friction because while in motion the patch in contact with the road isn't moving. Or at least they do until you skid.

So ABS brakes/releases to get a new round of static friction.

Pumping the brakes is probably a phrase that came from before power assisted brakes (when you were manually pressurizing the hydraulics) but still had relevance because it was also ABS.

[–] distantsounds 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Guest_User 6 points 7 months ago

Lol correct. Speed doesn't kill, acceleration does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Belter slingshot racers know this all too well. NOTE: Spoiler for an episode in the Expanse which everyone should watch if they haven't already.