Now THESE are brakes

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dirtyjeffer Anons on ignore, but not due to fear. Premium join:2002-02-21 London, ON	Now THESE are brakes Saw this in another board in here and had to share it. That's some pretty impressive braking, especially with a 40 ton secured load. Volvo showing off their new Collision Warning with Emergency Braking system: »www.youtube.com/watch?v=ridS396W2BY
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resa1983 Premium join:2008-03-10 North York, ON kudos:7	Wow... Thats pretty damned awesome.. That should save quite a few lives. -- Battle.net Tech Support MVP
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milnoc join:2001-03-05 H3B kudos:1	reply to dirtyjeffer Much better than Mercedes' attempt... »www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYY7OfQ4-5A Or Volvo's... »www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ZwS9izm4E -- Watch my future television channel's public test broadcast! »thecanadianpublic.com/live
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dirtyjeffer Anons on ignore, but not due to fear. Premium join:2002-02-21 London, ON	yea, i have seen the car ones before, and they don't seem to work very well...at least, not as well as that truck...perhaps that truck has a new style on it...of course, having 40 tons of weight on all that rubber likely helps out too (even though the added weight would also be harder to stop).
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milnoc join:2001-03-05 H3B kudos:1	In the truck's case, they remembered to turn the system on.
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peterboro Avatars are for posers Premium join:2006-11-03 Peterborough, ON	reply to dirtyjeffer Would be nice to see the rotor caliper combo.
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Warez_Zealot join:2006-04-19 Vancouver	reply to dirtyjeffer Pretty cool stuff. I wonder if they are auto calibrating breaks so they always stay in alignment.
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Thane_Bitter join:2005-01-20 London	reply to dirtyjeffer I wonder happens at highway speed if a car pulls in and cuts in short, will the system activate? What if the driver notices and swerves sharply as the system engages but he doesn't apply the brake, will the system keep breaking?
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I_H8_Spam join:2004-03-10 St Catharines, ON Reviews: ·Start Communicat..	said by Thane_Bitter: I wonder happens at highway speed if a car pulls in and cuts in short, will the system activate? What if the driver notices and swerves sharply as the system engages but he doesn't apply the brake, will the system keep breaking? I'd prob have it turned off in a city, maybe in adverse viability or long stretches of highway rolling. I drive nothing near as big as that AZ rig and at least twice a week I have someone cut with a 1/4 car length, have to hard brake to reestablish a safe distance. That's the drivers job, having some system cut in to hard brake would be quite the change. -- AFK: Attack, fight, kill!! The healer is telling you to go pull mobs. WTF: Way to fight! The healer is applauding your tactical genius
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dirtyjeffer Anons on ignore, but not due to fear. Premium join:2002-02-21 London, ON	reply to Thane_Bitter said by Thane_Bitter: I wonder happens at highway speed if a car pulls in and cuts in short, will the system activate? What if the driver notices and swerves sharply as the system engages but he doesn't apply the brake, will the system keep breaking? i believe the system looks for deceleration of the object in front of it (to sense an impending impact)...so if someone cut in front, but continued at a decent rate of speed, it wouldn't intervene...i believe the system automatically applies the brakes...when you look at that video, its ability to stop the truck in that last 15-20 feet is incredible. -- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - George Orwell
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graniterock join:2003-03-14 London, ON	reply to dirtyjeffer It is quite impressive. May not do as well on a snowy Canadian road. Although I imagine if a collision were to occur this system would greatly reduce the damage and risk to life.
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HiVolt Premium join:2000-12-28 Toronto, ON kudos:17 Reviews: ·TekSavvy Cable ·TekSavvy DSL	reply to dirtyjeffer The load on the trailer better be properly secured, or that kind of abrupt braking will send it flying towards the front! But yeah, very impressive braking! All you see on the roads here is just slam the brakes and the trucks just lock up the brakes and skid. -- F**K THE NHL. Go Blue Jays 2013!!!
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IamGimli join:2004-02-28 Canada kudos:1	reply to dirtyjeffer People are still gonna die but instead of being the ones in front of the rig it'll be the brain-dead morons who tailgate him while reading the paper/texting/yapping on the phone/feeding the kids on the back seat/playing with the radio...
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MaynardKrebs Premium join:2009-06-17 kudos:4	reply to dirtyjeffer said by dirtyjeffer: said by Thane_Bitter: I wonder happens at highway speed if a car pulls in and cuts in short, will the system activate? What if the driver notices and swerves sharply as the system engages but he doesn't apply the brake, will the system keep breaking? i believe the system looks for deceleration of the object in front of it (to sense an impending impact)...so if someone cut in front, but continued at a decent rate of speed, it wouldn't intervene...i believe the system automatically applies the brakes...when you look at that video, its ability to stop the truck in that last 15-20 feet is incredible. In that case it would be firing off a lot on the NYS I-90 as those idiots pass you at 1 mph speed differential and then pull in front of you 20' away and slow down.
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MaynardKrebs Premium join:2009-06-17 kudos:4	reply to IamGimli said by IamGimli: People are still gonna die but instead of being the ones in front of the rig it'll be the brain-dead morons who tailgate him while reading the paper/texting/yapping on the phone/feeding the kids on the back seat/playing with the radio... I was thinking about that Volvo video where the car smacked into the rear of the transport trailer and was wondering if the system didn't 'pick-up' enough 'reflection' from the rear of the trailer, ie. a typical car rear-end has more surface area with fewer 'gaps' to reflect ultrasonic energy from than the relatively 'open' area at the lower-rear of a transport trailer. It seems that the ultrasonic system eventually sensed the trailer but about 20-30' later than it did in the other Volvo video where the transport was stopping behind a passenger car.
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bluebaron2 Stuff Happens Premium,Mod join:2001-02-01 North of 44 1 edit	reply to graniterock (topic move) Now THESE are brakes Moderator Action The post that was here (and all 7 followups to it), has been moved to somewhere else for being Off Topic and Public bickering.
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