Sentences with phrase «braking slow the car»

I hit the brake pedal, and the Brembo ceramic brakes slowed the car down with ease.

An active front spoiler lip helps the big six - piston Brembo brakes slow the car from high speeds.

When descending grades, the transmission chooses lower gears, letting engine braking slow the car.

Even in a heavy rain the brakes slowed the car quickly and predictably every time.

Not exact matches

The slower the reaction time and the closer the cars are bunched together, the harder the drivers have to brake until eventually a car stops.

I had faith in my brakes this morning when I had faith that when I pressed the brake peddle my car would slow down and stop.

Government is like the brakes on a car, they don't make it go, they slow it down appropriately when needed.

For example, whenever Johnsonlaunches into a five - minute explanation of what he was feeling in the car as itentered a turn — including information such as throttle position, brake pressureand how the steering handled — Knaus will visualize in slow motion what's goingon inside the car as it rolls through the turn.

I have a lot of stitches in my arm (which dragged along the ground outside the car — the trauma surgeon says that the braking slowed us enough to save me from having it ripped off) and on my face and bruising all over.

«People watching the slow - motion disaster overtaking Europe don't want an emergency brake on immigration, they want control of the steering wheel so we can avoid the car crash up ahead.»

In dense traffic, cell phone users were about 20 percent slower to respond to sudden hazards than other drivers, and they were about twice as likely to rear - end a braking car in front of them.

According to Colello, magnets could extend the impact zone beyond the hard shell of players» helmets, slowing the collision down before it occurs, thus reducing the overall g - force that a player experiences — just like brakes on a car.

University of Utah mathematicians showed it is theoretically possible to design ideal climbing ropes to safely slow falling rock and mountain climbers like brakes decelerate a car.

As for braking, the engineers felt it was mostly unnecessary — they had a less wasteful plan for slowing the car.

The group knew that no matter how efficiently the powertrain brought the car up to speed, precious energy would go up in brake - pad smoke every time the car was slowed.

It slows you down like the brakes on your car, using neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine and GABA to literally lower heart rate, blood pressure, and help your heart and organs slow down.

It acts like the brakes in a car, to where it slows down and / or stops brain activity on an as - needed basis to help us function better.

It felt perfectly stable at this sort of speed too, although the brakes are not the most encouraging part of the car (they're effective enough, but need a good shove deep into the pedal travel) so it felt wise to leave plenty of margin for slowing.

Using the engine to slow the car can mean longer lives for brake pads, discs, rotors, and other expensive brake system parts.

The lightest of brake pressure on the interstate caused to car to slow abruptly.

Depending on trim, you can get blind spot monitoring with rear cross traffic alert, an electric parking brake, an around view camera system, and a sonar system that detects objects approaching from the front and behind in low speed situations and works with a rear cross traffic braking system to alert the driver and can slow the car if necessary.

Basically the clutch acts like a brake for the engine that is why improper shifting can cause your car or bike to stall, the clutch slows down the engine so that the wheels can catch up.

Hybrid mode would offer max performance, launching the Asterion from 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds and onto a top speed of 199 mph, and cross-drilled and vented carbon - ceramic disc brakes would slow the car.

The sheer number of turns, many of them off - camber and tight enough that I'm hard into the brake pedal time and time again, grateful that our car's upgraded Brembo stoppers slow the car without fail and without overheating.

Actually, it's more about braking, stopping, using that next half - mile to slow the car safely.

Mostly, I figure, laps first in a street Acura TLX (with racing brake pads, special tires, and accessory underbody spoilers) are designed to slow down an anxious group of race - driver wannabees, and so before I don my borrowed helmet and suit, I figure I'll eat up most of my allotted time in the same kind of car you can buy at your local dealer and maybe ease into the race car later in the day and minimize my exposure.

@raydowe Let's be careful here, he didn't say the brakes didn't slow the car, he said the brakes didn't STOP the car.

I can think of three and what I did tell them that I don't think I'll ever forget: One customer's car had a very slow brake fluid leak, I found it and told her the price of the part (dealer only part).

I agree you shouldn't pulse the brakes under normal circumstances, but in the situation described where the brake pedal was to the floor and the brakes weren't slowing the car, pumping the brakes could be effective in restoring some pressure to the system.

Modulation while trail - braking into slower corners is no issue, and the car's downforce means you can use a lot of brake pressure at the end of the straights with no worries about locking up.

The cylinders that push the brake pads in order to slow down the car are probably rusted out and some times do not move back in when you push the brake.

The brake pedal feels a bit strange at first, demanding more effort before effectively slowing the car.

The exhaust burbles as I lift and bury the brake pedal, the six - piston Wilwood front brake calipers grabbing hard and fast, the car wiggling around as it slows.

Pressing the brake pedal initiated a sharp right turn but did little to slow down the car.

There's some performance to back up the looks, too, with a Mopar lowering suspension kit slamming the car to the ground, Mopar upgraded parts to boost the 5.7 - liter V - 8 engine's power, a Mopar big brake kit slowing things down, and front and rear strut braces to keep handling in check.

The brakes were a letdown though, having to work double - time on the track, both slowing the car and controlling its wheelspin via the electronic limited - slip differential.

Since the regen slows the car at a rate of about 0.2 g, you don't use the friction brakes often in normal driving, but I finally gave the AP Racing brakes a workout tearing down the back roads.

Williams again recommends slowing down and braking earlier, then offers tips on setting up the car wider to the left for the course's tricky second slalom.

The electrical motors are also used to provide regenerative braking when the car slows down, with charge fed back to the batteries - at higher speeds retardation of up to 0.25 G is handled entirely electrically.

The 356 feels similar to the Speedster in terms of power — maybe a tad slower, actually, on account of its added weight (about 300 pounds) and, on this car, muffled exhaust — but its brakes are thoroughly superior.

Therefore, the system did not slow the car, the forward collision warning system did not provide an alert, and the automatic emergency braking did not activate.

The car is slow but carries momentum confidently, which is more than can be said for how it brakes, diving and skidding as the thin - rimmed steering wheel shakes.

The Countryman's brake pedal response is so severe that you invariably slow the car down more than you want for a given corner.

You can drive the Bolt like a traditional car by pushing the pedal and its squishy brake with your foot, or you can drive it in low mode and use the regenerative brakes to slow the EV down while coasting.

Rather than relying entirely on the brakes to slow the car down, the Turbo is fitted with an active spoiler on the trailing edge of the roof that can act as an air brake.

I had never driven a car without power brakes before, so I was taken aback when the car didn't slow with a small input.

Lap three and I once again approach Abbey corner in sixth gear and hit the brakes at the same point I did on the previous lap, only this time the car doesn't slow.

Speaking of slowing down, one unique driving characteristic of this car is the action of the oval, B - embossed brake pedal; its long, springy travel is unlike most modern cars» but somehow seems exactly right for a British luxury car.

On the driver assistance side Traffic Jam Assist, only available on cars with DSG, is a semi-autonomous function that accelerates, brakes and steers the car in slow moving traffic.

But you learn to work with this, understanding how much speed you can carry, and in slower corners you quickly find that trail braking keeps the car loaded up nicely.