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huh?
downshift to drift??
- Thread starter darkdrifterz45
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- GTP_Pergatory
I agree 100%. I think ABS is a wonderful invention and a great option to have, just for people such as you described who don't care about driving. I think those people should take the bus or metro or whatever. It would be safer for everyone. There are so many accidents on the road it's rediculous. I hardly go a day without seeing one. Hardly go a month without narrowly avoiding one.
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the thing is, in intiial D, it is so piss easy to control, and to drift a small corner, you just turn and hold L1 and it drifts.....its so stupid and easy
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whats an ABS?
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- GTP_Pergatory
ABS prevents your wheels from locking up when you slam on your brakes. As soon as it senses that the wheels have started to lock up, it will back off the brakes a little temporarily. If you slam on your brakes in a car with ABS the pedal will shake back and forth as the ABS kicks in over and over. (Some of the really nice ABS systems you can't really feel as much but most of them are quite obvious.) It's a very common feature in cars now, in fact you'd be hard pressed to get a car that didn't have ABS.
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what Pergatory said....I would've said that, but I was too lazy to type all that. hehe. The first time I drove a car with ABS, it was my dad's old 97 outback and it was so weird the first time I had to slam on the brakes that I ended up letting off because I thought something was wrong haha...luckily I didn't crash. Once you get used to it though, it's definitely better than non-ABS for daily driving. My car doesn't have ABS, but my dads WRX does and it's so good that you can't even feel the ABS. I love it 
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- GTP_Pergatory
I know what you mean ethix (about both the laziness and how it feels like there's something wrong). ABS is definetely cool. Not for racing though =)
If you're racing, you shouldn't notice the difference between ABS and non-ABS because you shouldn't be locking up in the first place. And by racing, I mean any sort of exhibition of driver skill (drifting, street racing, highway battles, hell even nascar). That was my point about ABS being for pussies. As far as racing goes, people who just slam on the brakes and let the car slow itself down are not in control of the car. They merely influence the way the car behaves, and hopefully it does what they want it to. This is the difference between a true driving enthusiast and a person who is still an amateur or does not care.
If you're racing, you shouldn't notice the difference between ABS and non-ABS because you shouldn't be locking up in the first place. And by racing, I mean any sort of exhibition of driver skill (drifting, street racing, highway battles, hell even nascar). That was my point about ABS being for pussies. As far as racing goes, people who just slam on the brakes and let the car slow itself down are not in control of the car. They merely influence the way the car behaves, and hopefully it does what they want it to. This is the difference between a true driving enthusiast and a person who is still an amateur or does not care.
JrunkenC
Why the crap would any noob driver come on here for real life advice on driving anyway. If they did and think a video game must be right then natural selection should kill the little bastard, just hopefully not harming someone else.
But ABS is a God send, its called a panic situation for a reason, you don't have time to think, that kind of muscle memory with braking takes YEARS of driving on closed courses to master. ABS still does the job better. If I purchased a high end car I would want an ABS on/off button, always on in the city off when I am f-ing around
Why the crap would any noob driver come on here for real life advice on driving anyway. If they did and think a video game must be right then natural selection should kill the little bastard, just hopefully not harming someone else.
But ABS is a God send, its called a panic situation for a reason, you don't have time to think, that kind of muscle memory with braking takes YEARS of driving on closed courses to master. ABS still does the job better. If I purchased a high end car I would want an ABS on/off button, always on in the city off when I am f-ing around
JrunkenC
Why the crap would any noob driver come on here for real life advice on driving anyway. If they did and think a video game must be right then natural selection should kill the little bastard, just hopefully not harming someone else.
But ABS is a God send, its called a panic situation for a reason, you don't have time to think, that kind of muscle memory with braking takes YEARS of driving on closed courses to master. ABS still does the job better. If I purchased a high end car I would want an ABS on/off button, always on in the city off when I am f-ing around
Why the crap would any noob driver come on here for real life advice on driving anyway. If they did and think a video game must be right then natural selection should kill the little bastard, just hopefully not harming someone else.
But ABS is a God send, its called a panic situation for a reason, you don't have time to think, that kind of muscle memory with braking takes YEARS of driving on closed courses to master. ABS still does the job better. If I purchased a high end car I would want an ABS on/off button, always on in the city off when I am f-ing around
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my civic got no abs on it and it really helped me a lot when i drove home from the airport with ma parents a dog crossed in front of one car the car slammed brakes but kept on skidding. I stepped on my brakes like regular driving situations then my car started to still slide forward so i let go of my brakes and turned my car away from the car in front of me, kind of like initial d. Had i had abs then my car's steering would be locked and won't be able to turn. I dont know if i am right but it seems that cars with abs, the steering wheel seems to lock up and you can't steer it.
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yeah, u got that backwords buddy, sry
