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From: Ian Jackson on 24 Mar 2010 17:43 In message <80ve2vF8apU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Bod <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> writes >On 24/03/2010 21:09, Harry Bloomfield wrote: >> Bod explained on 24/03/2010 : >>> How do you stop then? put your foot out of the door... or do you throw >>> out an anchor? >> >> It's called looking where you are going, planning and not putting on >> more speed than you can use up without needing to brake. >> >> > Yes I do that, but travelling around housing estates with lots of T >junctions etc, you quite often have no choice. >On busy motorways, I have been known to drive for over an hour without >touching my brakes, whilst all around me are constantly braking. > I remember following a colleague to work (about eight miles). I noticed that he did seem to brake frequently, and started counting. I reckoned that he braked fourteen times to my one. -- Ian
From: Bod on 24 Mar 2010 17:50 On 24/03/2010 21:43, Ian Jackson wrote: > In message <80ve2vF8apU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Bod > <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> writes >> On 24/03/2010 21:09, Harry Bloomfield wrote: >>> Bod explained on 24/03/2010 : >>>> How do you stop then? put your foot out of the door... or do you throw >>>> out an anchor? >>> >>> It's called looking where you are going, planning and not putting on >>> more speed than you can use up without needing to brake. >>> >>> >> Yes I do that, but travelling around housing estates with lots of T >> junctions etc, you quite often have no choice. >> On busy motorways, I have been known to drive for over an hour without >> touching my brakes, whilst all around me are constantly braking. >> > I remember following a colleague to work (about eight miles). I noticed > that he did seem to brake frequently, and started counting. I reckoned > that he braked fourteen times to my one. > > I amuse myself doing that sometimes on motorways. It's just astonishing seeing brake lights going on and off constantly. bod
From: Harry Bloomfield on 24 Mar 2010 18:09 Bod formulated the question : > Yes I do that, but travelling around housing estates with lots of T junctions > etc, you quite often have no choice. I agree there are situations where braking is absolutely not avoidable - unless you drive at ridiculously so speeds, but I still can usually limit myself to one single application of brakes per hazard. > On busy motorways, I have been known to drive for over an hour without > touching my brakes, whilst all around me are constantly braking. I can usually get from on ramp to off ramp without touching the brakes at all, even in heavy traffic. After all you can see for miles and predict what other driver might be intending to do, long before they do it. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Harry Bloomfield on 24 Mar 2010 18:13 Bod explained : > I amuse myself doing that sometimes on motorways. It's just astonishing > seeing brake lights going on and off constantly. Often a major part of it is the 'comfort braking'. They are already doing a very safe comfortable speed for a bend, but they brake. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Bod on 25 Mar 2010 04:45
On 24/03/2010 22:13, Harry Bloomfield wrote: > Bod explained : >> I amuse myself doing that sometimes on motorways. It's just >> astonishing seeing brake lights going on and off constantly. > > Often a major part of it is the 'comfort braking'. They are already > doing a very safe comfortable speed for a bend, but they brake. > > It probably sounds petty, but most drivers going over a hump back bridge around here, brake just before the brow. All they had to do, was drive just a few mile an hour less and the braking would be unnecessary. Am I getting older and wiser or just old and grumpy? :) Bod |