Toyota Camry

1996-2001 of release

Repair and car operation

Fears

It would seem, everything is already clear. Anti-blocking systems are recognized as all civilized auto world and already became the standard equipment on cars, since middle class. But voices of the dissatisfied are often distributed also.

"No electronics will be compared to the skilled driver, – tell one. – Give me the same car without ABS, and I will stop earlier!"

Another do not like that ABS, interfering with braking process, absolutely excludes participation of the person. As press on a pedal, it with not palatable vibration will be back pushed out. The car brakes itself, to affect a course of delay it is impossible in any way, besides with ABS it is very difficult to calculate a brake way and to predict, where the car will stop. It is necessary to wait only... Intolerably for the driver, got used to own a situation!

And the third nod on rally drivers. A pier, not without reason those are afraid of ABS, as plague! And to them, athletes, more visibly...

To disconnect not disconnected

Each exercise carried out in two series. At first did more than ten arrivals from working ABS, then disconnected system, and the car hurried again to the route of the next maneuver marked by bright landmarks.

How to brake?

With anti-blocking system everything is simple: you want to receive the greatest possible delay – a bog, without thinking twice, a pedal in a floor. And how to brake without ABS?

At first we tried everything to do "according to the theory" - to brake on the verge of blocking of wheels. Does not leave! Too sensitive folksvagenovsky pedal does not allow to dose out precisely brake force – and we are mistaken, and both in that, and in other party. And it in a quiet situation. And try it to make in an extreme situation when failure threatens!

Then we applied the tested way – faltering braking.

And for comparison tried, without philosophizing crafty, to brake "in a floor", with blocking of wheels. In what a difference? On a straight line the main difference – in course stability. Especially brightly it was shown when braking on миксте. Under the left wheels there was a wet asphalt, and under right – a snow-covered roadside.

From included ABS the car at first starts to withdraw towards a covering with the best coupling, but electronics works regularly: Passat is instantly leveled and further brakes on a straight line, practically without demanding podrulivaniye. During faltering braking without ABS the driver had to taxi up a little and the brake way appeared more.

But with complete blocking of wheels the car braked almost as is effective, as with ABS. But thus it sharply developed to the left on a dangerous corner – to 40 °! ABS prize here is obvious.

Covering surprises

Ice happens smooth, as a mirror, and rough, as a sandpaper surface. Snow happens dense, unrolled, friable, bound together, frozen together...

To what it we? And to that each covering has the specifics, and after our tests to give a definite answer on a question interesting all – in what conditions the brake way with ABS will be less, than without it – we cannot!

Options weight. For example, when at numerous stops on the same straight line of a wheel of our car накатали a track of the rough ice crumbed by thorns, the brake way with ABS and without it with the blocked wheels appeared almost identical. Not without reason our athletes say that the most "tenacious" covering – not asphalt, and ispolosovanny "nails" an ice track. And on snow – here so a surprise! – the car with ABS stopped a little later. All the matter is that on a snow covering the factor of coupling appeared lower, than – thorns here work at rough ice not so effectively. For ABS, probably, it appeared unprofitable. But at "usual" faltering braking (pressed – released-pressed) during blocking of wheels before them the snow roller which helps the car to be slowed down more intensively is formed. Work of ABS interferes with wheel blocking – and the roller it is impossible.

Be not afraid to twist a wheel!

Imagine quite real situation: before you in slippery turn suddenly brings the truck, and it develops across the road. Or another: from lateral journey on rather narrow street directly before a nose the car jumps out and partitions off your strip, leaving free only counter.

On a wave of the adrenaline which has rushed in blood the driver in panic, reflex, with all the might will press a brake. Wheels will be blocked. And with the blocked wheels the car in the first situation will take off outside of turn, and for the second – врежется in an obstacle. For without ABS to avoid failure only faltering braking will help, and here from the driver it is required not only outstanding composure and endurance, but also uncommon skill.

And here our example. The most experienced expert needed to call to the aid all the ability that, alternating strictly dosed out pushes on pedals of a brake and exact work as a wheel, to repeat and even slightly to surpass results of the same maneuvers with ABS.

But what from that? After all even the verifier needed to make for this purpose more than ten ranging arrivals, and in a real situation the chance will be only one! And electronics here will work reliably and in the benefit.

When braking in turn the task of the driver in general was the elementary: pressed a brake, turned a wheel – and the car, accurately tracing the set trajectory, it is intensively slowed down. It is available to any. It is important to remember only that during braking with ABS by car it is possible and it is necessary to operate. Did not freeze to compress a wheel, and dared to operate with it!

At an obstacle detour (we braked at performance of maneuver of a rerate familiar to our readers) the situation was such. When speed of performance of maneuver came nearer to limiting, after a detour of an obstacle drift of a back axis started to develop. It was both with ABS, and without it. But using ABS, it was possible to reduce speed so that drift was not so sharp and deep. And the brake way after a detour on 15 meters was shorter. Essentially!

However, to keep on the road, at correction of drift it was necessary to release a brake pedal even at working anti-blocking system. Why? We do not argue, ABS leaves possibility to change a trajectory at emergency braking, instead of to slide on a straight line with the blocked wheels. But at fight against drift ABS work too reduces efficiency of correcting actions by a wheel. And even to those drivers, whose cars are equipped with ABS, in similar situations it is necessary to be ready for an instant to release a brake pedal, having meaningly refused electronics services.

Avto-Revyu