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FIA looks at ECU safety car solution
Topic Started: May 16 2008, 02:57 AM (387 Views)
AndyW76
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TheCompleteGuitarist,May 16 2008
01:59 PM
AndyW76,May 16 2008
12:22 PM
Norbert,May 16 2008
08:08 AM
Surely if they're going to bugger about with the ecus for the safety car periods, then why not have them setup so that when the safety car is deployed, the engine is reduced massively in power output to avoid them racing back around to catch up the safety car as quickly as possible so that they can pit very shortly after it is deployed?

I disagree with the idea of a speed limiter that is outside a driver's control. sometimes you need extra power to drive your way out of trouble.

Such as when you start to overtake on a single carriageway only to see a ten ton truck coming the other way, so you need the power to overtake quicker rather than slow down and pull back in, which of course would be a very immasculating experience.

Exactly. though was more thinking of the pillocks that speed up when you are overtaking them, even when you are doing so in a perfectly safe place. I'm just glad my car has a decent amount of power.
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TheCompleteGuitarist,May 16 2008
01:59 PM

Such as when you start to overtake on a single carriageway only to see a ten ton truck coming the other way, so you need the power to overtake quicker rather than slow down and pull back in, which of course would be a very immasculating experience.

The best example I can give of power getting you out of trouble happened to me on a on a motorbike on a roundabout;

I was turning right and I realised that the car coming onto the roundabout from the "straight ahead" direction was not going to stop and give way to me - a collision would have been difficult to avoid - I was banked over, leaning to the right, one doesn't hit the anchors at this time - instead I gave my bike a handful of throttle and vacated the area. In the event it all happened so smoothly that my pillion hadn't realised what was happening.

Power *can* get you out of trouble - but most times it just gets you into the stuff.
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Petra Lead,May 16 2008
02:14 PM
but most times it just gets you into the stuff.

Only if you don't respect it.

Years ago, my dad has a 1992 Carrera RS and you had to treat that with a bit of respect because it was well loose in the rear. One of the directors went to a meeting with my dad and got a lift with him. As soon as they arrived he had to go behind the site cabins to vomit. His only comment was that it was the first time he'd been in a car that accelerated like a motorbike.
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AndyW76,May 16 2008
01:56 PM
Taking control of the car away fro the driver is a very dangerous game to play, not to mention one that could be fraught with problems. what happens if the system malfunctions and either slows a car unnecesarily or releases a car at the wrong time.

... or makes it run into the back of another car hidden by a cloud of spray..



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