According to Einstein, the force of gravity keeping your feet on the ground is fundamentally identical to the force slamming your body forward when you hit the brakes on the highway or take a sudden sharp turn.
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Did you know, that if you're going 100 mph, directly at a very, very thick, reinforced concrete wall, and you speed up, so you're accelerating right when you hit the wall that the accident you have is going to be much worse than if you'd jammed on the brakes as soon as you saw the wall at the end of the street?
The recorders capture information about how fast you were going and whether you slammed on the brakes in the seconds before and after a crash.
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Increasing the weight placed over the front wheel also decreases stability, which is why it will wobble if you slam on the brakes (your body's momentum continues forward, shifting weight on to the handlebars).
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Say you need to get your brakes checked before driving to the relatives' for Thanksgiving.
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You have to first put the brakes on a contracting economy.
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This is not out of a sense of patriotism, he says, but because quality control (especially important, you might think, for lift brakes) is much easier when suppliers are close to home.
If one of your New Year's resolutions involved spending a massive chunk of change to kick out as many frames per second as technologically possible, you may want to put the brakes on that impending NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX purchase.
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When you bring in a clunker that has no airbags, anti-lock brakes or other modern safety features and get a new car that does, you are protecting your family.
Assuming this perturbs rather than excites you, imagine if the federal government put the brakes on all this over-regulation of the economy for just a little while.
The brakes will pulsate as necessary (and at a faster rate than you could ever pump them yourself) to keep the vehicle from losing traction.
The five-speed manual is easy to use, if a bit slow, but then again, the old Jag motor is so torquey that you can leave the car in third gear for most jobs, and the brakes stop with the kind of easy retardation that speaks of modern discs and light weight.
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