Re: Bomb Warning removal

[Robert Houk - SMCC Bos Desktop Hardware <rdh@UrQ.East.Sun.COM>]

   >I would like to point out that a bad bomb is not a random inconvenience,
   >it seriously annihilates your ability to control ("modulate") the brakes
   >in an emergency/panic situation.

   Ummmm.... I've never had a problem modulating my brakes with my dead 
   bomb...

The problem most *mortals* (comme, par example, moi) will experience
is that for the first coupla instants, the driver must supply virtually
*all* of the braking effort, then must very rapidly back off as the
engine/hydraulics start catching up with the driver and pressurize
the brakes. I seriously doubt that more than one or two people spend
anywheres near enough time at 10.0 tenths (and specifically learning
the braking response of the car at all different engine speeds) to be
able to handle that [excuse the french...] "HOLYSHITTHATASSHOLEPULLED-
RIGHTINFRONTOFMEWE'REALLGONNADIESTEPONTHEBRAKESNOWOHGODWEREALLGONNADIE"
panic-stop situation. Racing is one thing; you know when the next ap-
plication of brakes is gonna be needed [usually...] and can get into
it smoothly; little kids popping out from behind parked cars tend to
be unscheduled events handled reflexively. For MOST people (and I in-
clude myself), driving with a bad bomb is driving with BAD BRAKES and
is tantamount to CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE (assuming you've read my diatribe).
The 10 or 20 (and I think that is optimistic) feet the bad bomb *will*
typically cost most drivers' stopping distance CAN BE life-or-death.

					-RDH