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Old 02-19-2008, 08:00 PM   #5 (permalink)
NoCO2
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I was going to suggest that it was because it is using 8 year old technology, but I have a 2000 Accord with ABS and I can use plenty of the brakes in dry conditions without it even so much as kind of kicking in. It makes sense though, they probably adapted the ABS system from a car similar to my accord which weighs in a just around 3000 lbs and the insight, which ways much less, has a lot less friction on the road to begin with, so someone probably goofed up in development and either didn't know or forgot to figure in the cars weight into the control system for the ABS.
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