Hangaku wrote:Jersey Tom wrote:Throttle is easy to scale, it's known that it will be 0-100%. Brake pressure on the other hand can be... whatever. Easier to do with an on/off switch and display.
I don't understand this vague "explanation" at all.
Vaguer explanation
Now, the top extreme most hypervaguest explanation in the world, just for you.
The truth, dear Hangaku is that the amount of movement of the brake pedal varies, not only from person to person, but from race to race and even from the start to the end, at least with the cars I drive. You probably can feel the same next time you race for over 200 km or so. At the start a slight movement engages full brake, at the end you move a lot.
As I try to accelerate and brake with my
toes and not with my
feet I might exaggerate on the ability you might have developed. Any way, try it also: it gives you a true feeling of the amount of movement, specially if you choose a particular place on the floor to put your heel. You'll notice, you'll notice, trust me.
I want to explain, out of thread but before everybody and his dog mocks me, that I use the toes when I really need to "feather" the thing and mostly the gas pedal: after all you don't push the brake pedal, you kick it, specially in high power cars!
...and that's another explanation, btw, if you follow my drift: those brakes are hard, man! I swear to heaven that you'll think to yourself "Darn, how could I ask that" the first time you have to push that kind of brake pedals. Have you ever driven an old american car with the drum brakes wet? Same thing happens with the cars with wide tyres: brakes are for machos.
I swear on the sacred soul of Nuvolari that
if you only press the pedal then you're doing it wrong. A race car goes from full throttle to full brake and there is nothing in between. You might feather the throttle, but the brake? Please, go and take again the race driver course, I beg you. It will do good. You only feather the brake to "settle the rear" (or whatever is the barbaric expression English speakers use for it).
Anyway, I continue with the TRUE reason.
As the only way to give you 0-100 is by some kind of variable resistor (or whatever has taken its place in the digital era) and
the amount of movement of the pedal varies, well... comprende, amigo? At the start of the race (measuring the movement of the pedal) you'd see 80% and at the end you'd see 100%, even if you make the same pressure, because the pedal moves more.
Now you'll tell me they can use a load cell.... Yeah, sure. Why not? And why do not we measure the force on the steering wheel for the public? C'mon, my grandma also watched the races (and that's another reason: DO NOT COMPLICATE a picture if you want 50% of the people to get the true meaning of it).
This explain why brake lights have a simple on/off switch from the simplest bicycle to the most complex Airbus since dogs, trees and brake lights were invented.
This time you could tell me you haven't seen the Airbus brake lights... so, next time you go to an airport check them out. Very cool. If you still don't see them, go to the VIP section, ask for some rum and recheck. You'll see them eventually.
So, to recapitulate, too much variation in movement, load cells are expensive and you want to keep the semantics to the level of my grandma. Now do you get it? If you still don't recheck the previous picture.
BTW, JTom is never vague, always laconic. So, it's your fault, not his.
Me, on the other hand... I delight in vagueness, I bath in circumlocutions and I perfume myself with hyperboles, so, this time it is my fault, not yours.
Finally, your refusal to understand (because it is clear you are refusing, you understand all this very well) takes me to wonder if the people that manages the telemetry are not leaving a pretty interesting market out of the picture. They could sell (at least to you) the most complicated TV image in the world, with icons for every bit and piece of the car. Couldn't they? C'mon, tell me the truth, we're among men. What you want is the darn thing to show when the driver farts, don't you? I confess I do too. My name is Ciro and I'm an F1 fanboy... (chorus: "Good evening, Ciro").
Now, your turn, Hangaku. Say hello to the FBA members (Fan Boy Anonymous).
