Is there an easy way to learn stopping distances!

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Stopping differences completely different a high powered sports car, a huge 4x4 and an old ford escort.

High powered sports cars have far better brakes/suspension than your average family car allowing for much shorter breaking distances. Perhaps all round disc brakes should be made compulsory for all new cars. But then that might reduce accidents and therefore result in fewer speed cameras / income for the Govt.

It its tyres, not brakes, that determine stopping distances. Most people who brake in an emergency do not brake nearly hard enough.

CHR15

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

. Most people who brake in an emergency do not brake nearly hard enough.

Agreed, which is why a lot of manufacturers introduced EBS (Emergency Brake Assist). Even my old 2001 Mondeo had it.

Give the brakes a good hard stab and the car takes over and brakes even harder.

With ABS too, just stamp the pedal through the floor, you can still turn too which is something else people forget to do when hurtling toward the back of a van.

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numbers aren't my strong point, back to the post its all over the house then...