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After VW was outed for falsifying environmental data in its cars hundreds of thousand of VW vehicles were taken off the road now sitting in storage sites. Hundreds of thousands of cars now lie in lots in the Mojave Desert, a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, and a former Minnesota paper mill in America alone. These vehicles are now in the open slowly breaking down with pollutants entering the environment. Is the the modern cost of corporate greed? What can we do to ensure this never happens again?
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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards
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(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:17AM (1 child)
ABS doesn't even engage unless you are at risk of breaking traction. It's true that the most skilled drivers can stop slightly shorter than simple ABS systems can, but most drivers are not in that category, including most drivers that think they are (this likely includes you until proven otherwise). And if your ABS is independent, even the most skilled driver can't beat it since the brake pedal doesn't offer individual wheel control.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @01:05AM
But on soft surfaces, breaking traction can be the right answer.
It's called cadence braking -- you alternate between braking and steering. Lock the wheels to plow through the soft material for maximum braking, then as the car starts to drift off-axis (or as needed to follow the road, avoid obstacles, or whatever) you lift off the brake pedal and steer. Repeat (in a cadence, hence the name) until you're at a speed and direction you're happy with.
I agree most drivers aren't the mythical expert that can outperform even simple ABS on wet blacktop, but you don't have to be; it's actually pretty easy to outperform ABS in soft materials, if your car lets you do it.
The problem is, ABS is optimized for urban/highway driving, where wet blacktop is the number one killer surface. Which is great for them, but it screws rural drivers who are more likely to drive on muddy or snowy (unplowed) roads, and it screws learning drivers by not letting them learn how to drive in snow and mud.