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posted by martyb on Saturday December 08 2018, @04:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-harm-could-a-lie-do dept.

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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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:58AM (#771833)

    > If the wheels on the right side are locking and releasing, then without ABS they'd just lock and slide providing LESS effective braking.

    Probably not true. If the wheels on the right side are in deformable mud and gravel, locking them will build up a wedge of loose material in front of the tires and this will (in many cases) give more deceleration than with ABS operating.

    Yes, try without the ABS. Pulling the ABS fuse is a common strategy by knowledgeable drivers in my area (Great Lakes) where slush over ice is frequent. In my case, I keep an older "winter car" that does not have ABS. I learned to pump the brakes as a kid (someone else called this "cadence braking"). On slush there is some skill in deciding when to pump vs. when to lock (for a short time) and then release if steering is needed. None of the ABS systems I've tried (many but not all) are not "smart" enough to detect a deformable surface and change strategy.

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