On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Russell McMahon wrote:

>> Actually any reasonably good modern car should be able to manage 1g braking
>
> Not consistently throughout a whole braking manoeuvre without great care in 
> design. Being able to lock up the wheels is only the first step. Stopping 
> them doing it is the second and harder step. Well designed ABS helps. Without 
> such weight transfer between wheels will leave the lightened wheel locking 
> and the one with more weight on it not braking as hard as it could.

http://www.4xclub.co.za/TyreABC.htm

Highest listed coefficient is 0.9 . How do you make it 1.0 ? I suppose 
that with 'glue' tyres (dragster) at low speed and with aerodynamics 
(pushing down on aerofoils) at high speed you could go a little beyond 
1G for a short time. What am I missing.

Peter
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