-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : http://ursine.ca/ `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAOu9TUzgNqloQMwcRAqdUAKDhmTRjKibVi0oh1hJFmJG2CRtxhACgu/qY lxY0FUX2W5KwrAcxtFAS11I= =HpqB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
