The first two First Class coaches also part, causing the automatic braking system to kick in.
This is part of the braking system--a piece of metal put underneath one of the back wheels on extreme slopes.
The longer range has been achieved by improving the LEAF's aerodynamics and its regenerative braking system and a more efficient E-powertrain.
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The Volt also has a regenerative braking system that recovers some of the energy of braking as a charge to the batteries.
The buses work by generating battery power through a regenerative braking system.
On Wednesday All Nippon Airways canceled a domestic flight in Japan because of an error message on the braking system of a 787.
Network Rail said all the recommendations from that investigation had been adopted, leading to a new requirement that all trolley vehicles be fitted with a braking system.
Connaught Engineering - The Llanelli-based company has developed the world's only retrofit braking system which can save up to 25% on fuel and CO2 emissions through regenerative breaking.
The left cluster shows Brake Coach, a feature that helps drivers optimize their use of the regenerative braking system so that driving range can be enhanced through proper braking techniques.
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LEAF's standard regenerative braking system helps increase range.
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The new locomotives are designed for easier maintenance, will improve energy efficiency by using a regenerative braking system that will feed energy back into the power grid and will enhance mobility for the people, businesses and economy of the entire Northeast region.
Another especially important consideration for SUVs, according to Shenhar, is accident avoidance, including the effectiveness of the braking system, how nimbly the vehicle can be steered around obstacles in an abrupt lane-change maneuver, and how secure and forgiving the handling is.
Combined with standard stability control that uses the antilock braking system to keep the car headed in the direction you're steering, we found the W8 unstoppable, even during a near-whiteout snowstorm that had a lot of SUV drivers skidding all over the road.
Car manufacturers might even develop vehicles that integrate the driver's thoughts with the braking or steering system.
If the car begins to oversteer or understeer, the system applies braking on individual wheels to restore stability.
Although the bright yellow boxes do help law-abiding drivers keep to the limit, law-breakers manipulate the system by braking when they see a camera.
Designed to be lightweight and cheap to produce, the robotic bicep upgrade uses a (mostly) aluminum frame, battery-powered DC motor, cable drive system, racket braking and thumbstick controller for movement, with a BeagleBone board supervising the electronics that pull it all together.
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Williams are testing a flywheel kinetic energy recovery system - the device that stores energy under braking - and have set up a company to develop the technology both for Formula One and further applications outside the sport.
But, eventually, braking feel returned and the beauty of a load cell-based system came through.
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Dubbed KERS, for Kinetic Energy Recovery System, the powerplant designed to recapture energy lost during braking or coasting.
The technology in question is KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) for capturing and storing the car's braking energy instead of wasting it as heat.
The Kers system stores energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat during braking, then reapplies it during acceleration to provide a boost in power, controlled from the cockpit by the driver.
Meanwhile, there's some code in the stability-control system dubbed Agile Handling Assist, through which the car, actively braking one of more wheels, helps drivers hold their line with smaller steering inputs.
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The new developments include a switch to slick tyres from the grooved ones of recent years, and the introduction of the kinetic energy recovery system (Kers), which stores energy recovered from the rear axle during braking and converts it to supply a brief power boost.
They include changes to the aerodynamics, the re-introduction of slick, untreaded tyres after 11 years with grooved rubber and the potential use of a kinetic energy recovery system (Kers), which stores energy that would have been dissipated during braking and reapplies it while the car is accelerating.
As the anticipated time-to-impact decreases, CMS prepares the car for sudden braking by moving the brake pads nearer to the brake disks, and finally, when the system concludes that a collision is less than one second away, it starts to apply the brakes itself.
This system can do neat things like toe both rear wheels in, slightly, under hard braking, to improve stability.
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This assistance system gives the driver a visual and acoustic warning of recognized obstacles, prepares him for braking action and assists him with the braking process as the situation requires.
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Mercedes-Benz's Distronic Plus system, for instance, contains radar-based sensors as part of its cruise-control system, to keep the car at a preset distance from the vehicle in front, braking automatically if the gap narrows quickly.
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