SBC is dead because consumers are scared of it.
The system can save the buns of an "average joe" who may not bury the brake pedal far enough to activate BAS.
It does have a artifical feel and the pedal doesn't pulsate when ABS is active,
so people think it is broken.
If I had a dime for everytime I heard "well, my Lexus doesn't do that when
I hit the brakes.", I could buy a Maybach. (which has dual SBC systems!)
SBC is cool technology that is a few years too early and way way too expensive.
The original plan was to have other car companies share the expense of
development, but nobody did. It cost MB a ton of money to develop and
now they have to walk away from it.
It's too bad. I have found the SBC features to be very helpful when the
car is in need of ESP intervention or even just old ABS, Very smooth and
stoping distances that make your neck hurt.
Pre-filling, Soft stop, Brake drying, and other features were very good ideas.
The idea was always about saftey first, not making it a scam.
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It looks to me like Mercedes wanted to have the monopoly of dealer only brake service,
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The system is very precise when it comes to service and can be very very
dangerous to untrained people. But it isn't a monopoly.
I will miss SBC when it fades away in the next few years for being the system
that "could have been."
DR.D