Sentences with phrase «slow car»

And in 2017, it's almost criminal to be relying on crude, 100 % wasteful friction brakes as the sole means of slowing cars down.

I bought the manual transmission because it gives me an extra way of slowing the car in winter driving.

Our test car came with power - assisted disc / drum brakes that did a nice job of slowing the car quickly.

But passing slower cars on a two - lane highway takes some caution.

They said even when driving slow the car is exciting, unlike M4.

It won't pull out and pass slower cars.

Adaptive cruise control enables collision warning with brake support to help slow the car if the potential of a crash is detected.

The regenerative braking system starts slowing the car with just the slightest brake - pedal pressure.

In some vehicles, it may even automatically slow your car down.

While the extra bulk of the batteries doesn't slow the car down too much in a straight line, it's more noticeable when you take corners at speed.

However, despite the long pedal, there's still enough power to slow the car from high speeds when you need to.

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

The first is the kinetic energy recovery, which slows the car significantly when you lift off the throttle so you can «one pedal drive» around town.

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

This feature can even slow the car to a stop and accelerate back up to cruising speed — all while remaining inside its lane.

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

Carry lots of speed into a corner and the system is so eager to engage that the braking effort actually slows the car, which is a little frustrating.

They just slowed the car fine with every pedal application.

It's the extra confidence you get when you lift off in traffic and the gears tug against the driving wheels and assists you in slowing the car effectively.

This is why most reviews talk about how slow the car accelerates from stand still.

And the car applied the ABS brakes and abruptly slowed the car down to 40 mph!

The one feature I missed in this A6 was adaptive cruise control, which automatically slows the car based on the speed of slower traffic ahead.

Trying to slow the car gently and roll through was my best option.

He was able to put slower cars between himself and his competitors on numerous occasions to build gaps from as little as 0.2 seconds to 1.5 and 2 seconds at a time.

Although I suppose my real complaint about the classes is that you either have a fast car with low health or an extremely slow car with loads of health.

Our test car was equipped with power - assisted front disc / rear drum anti-lock brakes that easily slowed the car in an emergency stop and brought it quickly to a halt.

Or do you want to see slower cars but they can race?

They designed streets that slowed car traffic and incorporated bike lanes.

I was stuck behind a crazy slow car yesterday on a two lane road and so I passed him on the left in the passing lane.

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

Remember, this was done during the practice session, among a field of much slower cars.

This still puts wear and tear on the components but not as much as physically slowing the car down when bringing it down a gear.

The car doesn't merely lose momentum either; something is actively slowing the car down.

Don't let your old used car slow car slow you down.

It consistently slows the car in a very predictable fashion.

Low range increases the level of regenerative braking when you release the accelerator — more obviously capturing the energy of rolling by turning the motor into a generator and more aggressively slowing the car.

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.

Adaptive cruise control works like competitive systems, slowing the car down from its set speed to match the pace of slower traffic ahead.

Nevertheless, the test car's four - wheel disc brakes did a fine job of slowing the car.

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.

Turning off overdrive will keep the transmission out of fourth gear - helpful when towing or when using the engine to help slow the car while descending steep roads.

Like normal cruise control, it'll maintain a preset speed, but it can also slow the car if a vehicle moves into the lane in front of you, before returning to the preset speed when the road is clear again.

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.

Further making the Wraith tech - forward, this example came with adaptive cruise control, letting me set the speed and have it automatically match the speed of slower cars ahead.

It can be manually overriden by the driver, of course, who simply has to press on the gas pedal if the speed limiter began slowing the car while passing another vehicle, for example, and works at speeds between 30 to 190 km / h (20 to 120 mph).

It encourages you to push harder, brake later and deeper into the corner (the optional lightweight discs fitted to our test car were some of the best we've tried: progressive pedal travel, easy to modulate and as strong at slowing the car as the supercharged motor is at accelerating it) and lean on the outer tyres» grip, and play with that brilliant chassis beneath you.

Frankly, we didn't notice anything exceptional about the cornering in comparison to, say, an Audi A7 or Fisker Karma; instead, the most evident characteristic is the aggressively calibrated energy recapture system, which chewed back at the road, rapidly slowing the car as soon as our right foot lifted.

You'll find there's enough torque to overtake slower cars relatively easily, too.

Daniel Ricciardo wonders whether it's worth it, and thinks it'd be better to go back to slightly slower cars which can race each other better.