Once you’ve perceived a potential issue on the road, and once you’ve reacted by getting your foot off the gas and onto the brake pedal, the braking time is how long it takes your vehicle to come to a stop when the brakes are applied. Numerous factors enter this equation including: - How fast you [...]
Reaction Time
Once a driver consciously perceives something on the road (perception time), another 3/4 of a second will usually pass before he or she is able to respond by turning the wheel or touching the brakes or, in the unlikely event of suddenly being spotted by a mob of zombies, hitting the gas pedal. Booze, fatigue, [...]
Perception Time
On average 3/4 of a second will pass before your brain becomes conscious of a spectacle on the road. If you are talking into a cell phone or you’re liquored up or tired, perception time can be much longer. This can be very embarrassing if the spectacle turns out to be a phalanx of space [...]
Lug
Rolling Stones guitarist and world-renowned pharmaceutical laboratory Keith Richards is reputed to have once owned a Bentley. As reported by one of his handlers, the peerless Spanish Tony, Richards was unable to correctly operate the manual transmission, nevertheless he was somehow able to slowly get the car into motion even though he always left the [...]
