Journal Journal: [tt] Poll of the Day - Who do YOU trust more? A Bakers Dozen 13
Trust is a funny thing
Trust is a funny thing
. When braking on dry or wet roads your stopping distance will be about the same as with conventional brakes.
You should allow for a longer stopping distance with ABS than for conventional brakes when driving on gravel, slush, and snow. This is because the rotating tire will stay on top of this low traction road surface covering, and effectively "float" on this boundary layer.
A non ABS braked vehicle can lock its tires and create a snow plow effect in front of the tires which helps slow the vehicle. These locked tires can often find more traction below this boundary layer.
Snow under pressure sticks to ice better than frozen rubber does. You want the tire to stop rotating so it can build up a 1/2 layer of snow.
slippery ice covered roads already are quite covered by the computer in your existing car.
No, they're not. There's nothing quite like the OMG feeling of the stupid ABS system completely unlocking all 4 wheels as you approach a red light.
Leave him alone
If he wanted to be left alone, all he had to do was SHUT UP! Same as if Shuttlewirth doesn't want to be criticized, he should stop making stupid announcements that are a joke - like his latest brainfart about Ubuntu "out-innovating" Apple and Microsoft.
"As personal analytics develops, itâ(TM)s going to give us a whole new dimension to experiencing our lives."
Here's a clue - if that would "give a whole new dimension to experiencing your life", you need to step away from the keyboard and get a life!.
Hundreds, or even thousands, of drunk driving convictions could be overturned because the San Francisco Police Department has not tested its breathalyzers, officials said Monday. For at least six years, the police officers in charge of testing the 20 breathalyzers used by the Police Department did not carry out any tests on the equipment. Officers instead filled the test forms with numbers that matched the control sample, said Public Defender Jeff Adachi, throwing countless DUI convictions into doubt.
Apparently this has happened before.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.