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Re:My Delorean runs Perl by netsharc on Saturday January 27, 2018 @07:58PM (#16249034)
In response to your first sentence, if it were me, surely I would not plan a big trip if I just lost my instrument console. If it were my car and I was in the middle of the big trip, I would hopefully have packed my laptop so I can try to fix the problem.

Door ajar? Seatbelt loose? Now we're just getting into paranoia scenarios. What if a nuclear bomb landed and there won't be enough gas to drive me away from the blast zone!

Re:My Delorean runs Perl by sedachv on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:02PM (#16260589)
Do you do a lot of road trips? The only scenario from the above list I have not personally been involved in, as a driver or passenger, is ABS problems leading to an unexpected change in handling, mostly because I have older vehicles. Yes, I have been in a car where a door opened while underway.

The one vehicle I have right now with ABS has intermittent ABS issues but a soft failure mode. Newer cars rely a lot more on ABS (especially in off-road modes), same goes double for motorcycles. Losing ABS/TC on a motorcycle drastically changes the envelope of safe brake application. If your muscle memory for safe brake application is (mis)trained to rely on ABS/TC at the limits of available traction, losing ABS/TC will very easily lead to a front wheel lockup or unexpectedly losing the front/rear in a lean.