THE FABIA CLUB

Rudy

I was just going through the reviews about fabia in carwale and found this interesting which explained about the safety features in Fabia, some points went above my head.
Thought worth sharing...

http://www.carwale.com/Research/ReadFullUserReview-rid-24683-sort-3-m-1219239679.html

admin · Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject:

The Fabia catalouge mentions that apart from Airbags, the Ambiente and the Elegance variants also have ABS, Dual Rate Brake Assist and MSR.

While most cars offer ABS with EBD, I guess Fabia does not have EBD. Instead it offers Brake Assist. Until this moment I had no idea about the usefulness of BA. Here is an extract from wikipedia:

Brake Assist detects circumstances in which emergency braking is required by measuring the speed with which the brake pedal is depressed. Some systems additionally take into account the rapidity of which the gas pedal is released, pre-tensioning the brakes when a "panic release" of the gas is noted. When panic braking is detected, the Brake Assist system automatically develops maximum brake boost in order to mitigate a drivers tendency to brake without enough force. In doing so, Brake Assist has been shown to reduce stopping distance by a significant margin; up to 20% in some studies.

Now I can feel the brake boost in my car Very Happy

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MSR is Motor Speed Regulator. It controls the speed of the engine (or revolutions per minute) during down shifting to avoid skidding. There is a detailed description on the above link.

@invinsible: How many marks do I get? 9 on 10?

Next lecture on Engine immobiliser, anybody?

k_ajay · Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject:

LOL Robin... Not bad eh.. Tech talk and all..

I've known Brake Assist exists on the Fabia and also knew it 'helped' when we emergency brake, but the below extract is very detailed..

How different is this from EBD? What are we missing in functionality by not being equipped with EBD?

Another one, Robin Wink

lol
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