On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:28:14PM -0700, SJS spake thusly: > begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:05:22PM -0700: > > I meant to say that the locked set ends up in front according to the > > direction of movement. If the car is moving backwards at a sufficient > > speed and the front wheels were to lock up, the car would flip around. > > I don't buy it. > > Locked-up wheels and braking wheels, yes. But locked up wheels and free > spinning wheels? No way.
It may have to do with the fact that locked up wheels exhibit sliding friction which isn't very much (hence anti-lock breaks) but the free spinning wheels which go sideways may cause even more friction than the sliding wheels and end up in back. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
