emergency brake

Quite significant indeedy...

(if Scott can have a new word then so can I - and mine's much more couth than his'n - significantly couther)

And use of the "hand brake" to facilitate a spinout is called "E-Braking".

;-)

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What is "Usenet" ?

And as far as Troll is, now reading your link I see that fits you down to a tee

"The old definition of a Troll is one who posts to generate the maximum number of follow ups. These are a very minor irritation, and can be considered to be advantageous to newsgroups."

Don't you think !!!!

Being an old timer, it was called an emergency brake a long time before it was ever called a parking brake. I still call it an emergency brake knowing full well it's a parking brake. I would hate to depend on it in an emergency, as it will barely stop you going 10 MPH.

I would guess that in the days when a leak from a bad fitting or hose would empty the entire braking system, "emergency" brake would have applied. As someone who had that happen at work once and drove a few blocks back to the garage at a low enough speed for the hand brake to actually work, I can attest that hazard flashers are aptly named too.

Pat

More accurate if they used P-braking? :)

Beats just screaming #$%^& at least...

In the UK all parking brakes are referred to (in MOT places etc) as the emergency brake, as that is technically what it is supposed to be for (as well as parking). Auto-boxed cars have one still despite being able to be put into 'park' - hence its not really a parking brake IMO, just an emergency brake used for parking too.

That said, using my cars handbrake to stop in an emergency would be a scary experience.

Not entirely true, it says that whomever set the brake did not set it well. My wife is famous at my house for not setting the brake enough to hold the car in place, but she sets it out of the OFF position and yanks it hard enough for the brakes to drag. The big red light on the dashboard should be a clue to any driver to be looking at something, and this is why the kid needs more supervision before going out on his own again.

Anyone who does not agree with the person that called the other a troll, it seems LOL

mike hunt

Travis Jordan wrote:

The Japanese term for a parking brake is "hand brake," most likely from the European term. I noticed that people in Japan set the hand brake when stopped pointing uphill in a vehicle with a manual transmission and then release the hand brake as they engage the clutch when starting. This would not be doable with a foot-operated parking brake. When I lived in San Francisco, I just let the car in front get a bout a car's length head start and then popped the clutch and took off.

Aren't those called bootleg turns? - very difficult to do in a Sequoia with VSC

That's cuz I haven't worked on your parking brakes. I can get rear drums to lock up at 30 mph.

So can I!

And with the low revs normally used for moving off, there's hardly any power being generated at that time by the engine. A properly set hand (or foot) brake should easily win against the engine.

David

Now THAT is a troll.

"Ray O" wrote: cut

Does speed have any bearing on it Ray?...

Just past "smart ass" and "pedantic asshole" on the Usenet annoyance scale.

Leonard

Steve, if your parking brake fails while coming to a stop, will you use it for an "emergency brake"?

OK, so its also an emergency brake!