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To: Daffynition

I saw a car pull out in front of me and I slammed my foot into the brake pedal. I was using all my strength and should have locked up the wheels. It felt like it took a full ten seconds to hit the car. I thought, “why isn’t this brake pedal doing anything?.” Then it got all grey and blank in front of me and then the air bag deflated. When I got out of the car I saw that the distance was no more than twenty five feet and in the real time I probably did not even move the brake pedal all the way to the floor.I had been traveling at probably 40 mph.


7 posted on 08/18/2010 3:46:15 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: arthurus

Good story. I won’t bore you with my slo-mo story, but I can recall it, with every motion in great detail, as it happened, in my mind’s eye...even though it was a decade ago. Amazing phenomenon.


22 posted on 08/18/2010 5:26:55 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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