Who needs brakes

[Robotstar5]

That is great if you are in top gear at twenty mph and need to accelerate in a hurry!

You shouldn't be in top gear at 20 mph, you should be in the correct gear for the road conditions

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I thought the brake pedal was so the cars behind knew I was slowing down.

To indicate to the driver behind that you are braking ( or have stopped, if a vehicle is approaching from a distance at speed). Gradual changes in speed should not be needing an indication of change (one does not indicate slowing, when driving up-hill for instance!).

What they are not for is sitting stationary for minutes on end in traffic queues, particularly with bright, high intensity lamps. Moron drivers is what I call them.

Kinda important when the arses around here drive 2m from your rear bumper.

 

[Domdom]

No neutral position on the gearbox? No handbrake? Auto gearboxes change gear automatically but they never select neutral.

Not easily, no. The handbrake (electronic) is not easily reachable being under the dash next to the bonnet release. Neutral is a faff to select with the gear selector being where normal cars have the indicators and no position for neutral, you have to try and select reverse without having your foot on the brake. None of it is designed for manual intervention. Right, wrong or indifferent, that’s the way Merc built it.

 

[bricol]

I was driving the Morgan down a steep hill a few years back and got flashed by the following driver when we reached a junction - ‘you’ve got no brake lights mate!!’. I dabbed the brake pedal, flipped him the bird and drove off! Rover V8 and the right gear you don’t need brakes.

I had similar with some clown in an Audi who kept catching me on long straight bits, and dropping right back on corners . . . I was in my old 1991 1100cc Pug 106 on skinny tyres . . . I just don't brake for any of the corners on that bit of road . . .

 

[GRW]

"Well - Brakes are the biggest enemy of speed".

The laconic reply to the TV Interviewer by the marvellous Stig Blomqvist immediately after setting a 2nd-fastest Rally Stage time overall.... with no brakes.
(A very, very long time ago, but one of those things that stick in the mind ).

Scandinavian unflappable cool at its best.

 

[Gritineye]

No need for brakes Sharan can do it!

 

[Gritineye]

^^^ that's a still from a video on FB that I can't post here, the car and trailer are just driving along as if it's quite normal, the cones are from a recovery in progress on this side of the road.

 

[8ob]

A 7.5 ton chassis cab on a trailer is a lighter than a 2.7 ton mini digger on a plant trailer, just looks a bit leery stuck behind a Sharon

Bob

 

[R Kraft]

An about 8 min video, of one of the more famous down hill stretches of highway .