Voisin Designs a safer braking mechanism to prevent skidding.
"Antilocks help by preventing lockup; A vehicle with such brakes remains stable during hard breaking".
The antilocking braking system (ABS) was designed by the Frenchman Gabriel Voisin (1880-1973), originally as away of the preventing planes from the swerving on landing. He first installed a system to keep airplane brakes from locking up in 1920. Several decades later, after limited success with similar systems in cars, a breakthrough came in 1978, when Mercedes-Benz announced the installation of electronic ABS in its S-class car.
Theoretically, ABS can stop a serious car accident from the occurring by allowing a driver to maintain control in slippery conditions or during an emergency stop. On an icy road, a car's wheels can lock up, sending the vehicle into a spin. in old cars that did not have ABS, driver had to try to pump the brakes to prevent this. With ABS, the brakes are automatically pumped-the system sense the change in conditions and the alters the brake fluid pressure accordingly. Meanwhile, the driver keeps his or her foot firmly on the brake pedal. Unfortunately, there is not very much evidence to suggest that ABS reduces accidents on the roads, partly because many drivers do not realize how the been carried out that suggest ABS has been of little practical use, one even concluding that ABS may actually increase instances of single-vehicle collisions.
Manufactures are now fitting cars with advanced safety system. The electric stability program (ESP) developed in the 1990s works during normal braking and skidding. Some manufactures are already producing intelligent cars that can completely take control of the vehicle in an emergency situation. HB
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