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Old 01-08-2021, 02:22 PM   #22
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The comments from the dealer seem weird to me too. Unless they did a wack job designing that system it seems odd that just driving the car would fry the ABS computer. Similarly not having ABS shouldn't make the car into some kind of death trap, you should just not have ABS. People survived for decades (and continue to) with no ABS and no issues.
Yeah, that seems dubious to me. It's pretty standard practice that if any component, sensor, or computer were to fail then the system should simply go fail-safe, it should never become unsafe to actually drive.
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