Posted on 12/03/2024 4:51:45 AM PST by Paul R.
“Had the Deputy not been on scene or delayed performing this maneuver the driver and vehicle would have likely gone into the water upon reaching the lake,” stated Williamson County Sheriff Jeff Diederich in a Facebook post.
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Have to remember that most people on the road do not have the understanding of their car, or the judgement to be able to make these decisions in a panic.
On a side note, for other reasons, most of the above list should never have been granted permission to drive.
Combined with the fact that new cars are absolutely designed to babysit their operators.....
The first motorized rideable toy my cousin and I built (we were 14 and 13 years old) was a 26” bicycle, (with 20” wheels, to help accomodate the changes to the frame to hold the Briggs 3 hp motor). We never got around to rigging up a braking system. A year later I sold to a neighboring farmer’s 12 year old son.
At 15, I built a true mini-bike, with a rear drum brake. However, the cheap cable was always stretching, so most of the time it didn’t have brakes either
At 17, as a senior in high school I built a 3 wheeled ATV. I never got around to installing brakes on it either. About a year later I sold it to the same kid that bought my converted bicycle.
When I delivered it, his dad saw there were no brakes and said with a laugh, “You sure don’t worry about stopping much do you?”
“She was applying the brakes. Why wouldn’t the car stop?”
Some people ride and brake with their left foot. It is an extremely dangerous bad habit.
In a panic braking they push both the brake and the accelerator. The accelerator wins.
I get a long time out of a set of brakes, because I use them as little as possible, but I still want brakes on anything I drive or ride. When you need them, you need them.
I remember seeing something in Car and Driver back when there was all that nonsense about Audis running away. The C/D staff took several different cars and measured stopping distances both in normal braking and with the car’s accelerator floored. Full throttle added about 10% to the stopping distance in every car tested.
Our 2009 Outback allows one to shift into neutral at any speed. I’m not sure about the 2014 Tahoe.
The lady in the article had to have gone a significant distance, I would think, for the cops to be able to catch up to her. I’m not sure why she turned onto a road that ends in the lake!
Woman, age 20.
Apparently Driver’s Ed doesn’t teach some important stuff any more...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. My turbo Juke was my favorite car ever. It could take anything on the road. I would have loved to put it up against my deputy nephew’s Charger.
Brake management. Absolutely!
As a trucker, I’ve been known to my employers as being especially easy on the brakes. Safe spacing (hard to do sometimes), down shifting, jake (exhaust) braking where permitted, are keys to long brake component life.
As a trucker, you also have the great advantage of being able to see over most traffic so you can anticipate what’s happening at a good distance ahead. I mostly drive a Nissan Sentra around town, and if you leave enough space ahead, you’ll get an SUV or a pickup (or two) cutting into it. I hate not being able to see anything but the back of some large vehicle right in front of me, but that’s how it is too much of the time.
Pregnant driver, huh. Better check those brake lines for tampering by a bf who is opposed to paying child support.
Did 911 tell her to try the parking brake?
Most schools don’t have drivers ed anymore. You either learn from dad (what’s a dad?) or pay to go to a company that is supposed to teach you enough to pass the test.
The cop failed me on my first attempt at the driving part. I’d only driven around the corner and did nothing wrong. When I walked to mother’s office, her secretary ratted her out that she’d told them to fail me. Not a bit surprised as that’s what she’d done to me all my life and still does today. Hard core demonrat and went off the other day that Christians have it all wrong and Islam is the closest to right. I didn’t say a word. Tired of reacting. I’ll let Jesus be the judge. She was sugary sweet at Thanksgiving -— something wicked this way comes.
Right!
Wow. Thanks for the info.! I am glad your difficult situation ended well and you were able to laugh about it!
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