JPS Europa wrote:
Dont know about braking kit, but if you have a complete unit out of an existing car, I dont see why it could not be adapted.
Anything seems easy from a birds-eye view. My thought is the difficult part in working with an OEM unit will be actually interfacing with the box - how do I tell it what to do? Are there discrete inputs for every action, or do I have to know the manufacturer's proprietary communication protocol?
JPS Europa wrote:
Dont know about braking kit, but if you have a complete unit out of an existing car, I dont see why it could not be adapted. I do have a working ABS unit out of a 94 Acura Integra that I will no longer need. I paid $100 for it. Yours for $50 plus shipping. It would need a car battery sized space for mounting. PM me if you want it.
In my personal experience, the ABS systems on cars made in the last ~5 years are head and shoulders above what was used 10+ years ago. The brake pulses that my 2001 model year car was able to manage were so slow that I could beat the ABS stopping distance every time in the snow by turning off ABS. The older systems were only good for keeping the car pointed (roughly) straight under heaving braking in poor conditions. They did nothing to enhance actual braking performance - there's no way it was fast enough to hold the tire at the edge of lockup. If I got anything, it'd have to be recent and decent.
KB58 wrote:
FWIW, in my day job we produce autonomous systems. When some situation suggests making the system "handle the issue on its own", we have to think very hard about whether it'll be a net positive result, or if we're making the system too smart for our own good. That is, will it make for a better product, or make it easier for users to get confused, and actually cause more problems than it fixes?
I'm an engineer at a control systems company, the worst thing you can do with our product is to put it in Manual mode.