Passenger vehicle braking performance with a disabled vacuum power booster

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Bartlett, Wade ^a  

^a Mechanical Forensics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; BRAKES;

ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION; BRAKE PEDALS; HUMAN ABILITIES; PASSENGER VEHICLES; PERFORMANCE DATA; UPPER BOUNDARY; VACUUM POWER; VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS;

BRAKING PERFORMANCE;

EID: 85072486628     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/970946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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