Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:39:13PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> It's a long time since I took my car test, and I had no problems with
> the emergency stop, but the examiner's instructions were "...without
> locking the wheels", so I'd guess any kind of lock would be a fail.
> Dunno what they do now that ABS is common.
When I was learning to drive, I locked the brakes on my truck (at the
time, it was my mom's truck). Only time I have ever seen the ABS
light come on except when I'm starting the truck, too. I'll be damned
if I could reproduce that.
> With the motorcycle test, the instructions are to stop the bike "under
> control", and without hitting the examiner who has just jumped out in
> front of you. It seems that a minor lockup is permitted as long as you
> counteract it and keep the bike under control.
What I never understood is locally they tell bicyclists that you stop
faster locking the brakes and everybody else to absolutely avoid doing
so. Never mind that if you can stick a fast stop with good brakes, as
hard as you can without locking the wheels, you stop way, way faster
than skidding, especially going downhill...and I don't know anybody
who enjoys the smell of burning rubber...
> > Then again, the traction control doesn't work worth a damn either :)
>
> ...so you can still powerslide round roundabouts :-)
I switch from four wheels to two in the snow and ice if I can.
Nothing like sticking a wicked fishtail peelout going around the
corner on a bicycle...
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