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Subject Brakes use 42 volts? Pardon??
     
Posted by Z U N L on November 15, 2006 at 2:51 AM
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In Reply To MZR - Germans reinvent the wheel. Well really the brakes. posted by longhornz32(Fort Worth) on November 14, 2006 at 09:42 PM
     
Message "Until now, though, the braking system remained an electro-chemical process, using hydraulic fluid and an obscenely high voltage—42 volts—that requires all sorts of transformers and regulators."

I am going to have to assume that the 42 volts refers to ABS systems? Because if ABS is not included, it's nothing more than hydraulics (and vacuum assistance, if you have a brake booster) on most cars.

Honestly, this whole "computer controls everything" approach that carmakers have been taking lately just sounds like a bad idea to me. It's really just more things that can go horribly (and expensively) wrong for little more than a marginal benefit.



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