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Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH [message #244862 is a reply to message #244858] Mon, 24 March 2014 12:02 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
kelvin is currently offline  kelvin   United States
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On 3/24/2014 9:39 AM, Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> Am 24.03.2014 17:36, schrieb Kelvin Dietz:
>> On 3/24/2014 9:29 AM, Corley Wooldridge wrote:
>>> Anti-lock braking system
>>>
>>> >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>>>
>>> Anti-lock braking system (ABS) [..]
>> I hate to even partially agree with anything Mr Foster says, but there's
>> also this...
>>
>> http://www.topspeed.com/cars/automotive-glossary/absanti-blocking-system-ar13936.html
>>
>> The only reference to Anti Blocking System I found, however. I've never
>> heard the term "Block" used in such an odd way.
>>
>>
> Maybe it comes from the fact that the ABS was invented by the Germans.
> And in German the long form is Anti Blockier System. The first company,
> according to wikipedia, that made it readily available was an American
> company in the 60s. As always, the German invents stuff, and the
> American perfect it and build it :)

Google says one of the English translations for "Blockier" is "Lock".
So... what say you, Mr Foster? Or should we be calling you Herr Foster?

It's nice of us to keep the German acronym but it seems to me even they
meant "Anti Lock System".





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