rumor has it that Jim wrote: > > Stopping distance with modern antilock brakes is the same as > > without these days, as I said, this isn't 1977, when Chrysler > > anti-lock brakes WOULD increase stopping distance. > > Unless you're on packed snow, where it still increases the stopping > distance. In that one particular instance plowing into the snow > actually helps a lot. > > That, sadly, describes the common winter condition of the hill to > our house... Makes me wish I had an ABS-defeat switch wired in, > but when you need it would you have time to hit it? Hate to turn > it off and forget, since the next piece of road is usually icy, > not snowy, and is curvy.
Just use a GPS receiver, with a PIC board to inteface to the ABS defeat. Then the defeat switch could reset itself based on physical location. Add a temperature sensor, a NOAA data reciever and it might even be able to predict when to _enable_ the defeat!! -- Philip, with far more ideas than time to build them
