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To: 101voodoo

What a machine! 175 would be truly scary!


337 posted on 07/10/2011 4:03:37 PM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave--Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: rodguy911

LOL, and I never exceed the speed limit. But it really is a marvelous machine and it saved my life (and it’s own) before I had it a week.

I was on the highway moving along at about 60MPH and just as i looked down to change the station on the radio, the guy in front of me actually stopped. I wasn’t tailgating but at 60 MPH it doesn’t take long to close the gap.

Anyway my car has something called ‘Distronic Plus’ which is actually radar which monitors the distance between you and the car in front. If it closes to a certain distance the brakes are automatically applied. In my case almost as soon as I looked down (maybe a second or two later), the nose of the car dove as the brakes were applied and I was thrown against the seat belt and when I looked up my car had stopped a few feet from the car in front of me.


358 posted on 07/11/2011 9:10:02 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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