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Emergency Stop

  • 13-07-2012 9:43am
    #1
    clanpiper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 ✭


    Be truthful about this:

    How many of you learner drivers reading this know how to correctly carry out an Emergency Stop and the procedure following this?

    How many instructors (quite a few I know personally don't but have started to introduce it) teach their pupil this as soon as possible?

    The word 'Emergency' should make people sit up and think.

    Whether or not this is part of the curriculum in Ireland is besides the point.

    Every pupil who is ready to go out on the main road should know how to do this. Full Stop, NO exceptions.

    If you are driving and your instructor is momentarily distracted how confident are you that you will react the correct way if a child runs out between parked cars on the road?

    On your next lesson do yourself a favour, ask your instructor to show you the Emergency Stop procedure.

    He/She should not refuse this request.


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  • #2
    Cathalog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭Cathalog


    clanpiper wrote: »
    Be truthful about this:

    How many of you learner drivers reading this know how to correctly carry out an Emergency Stop and the procedure following this?

    How many instructors (quite a few I know personally don't but have started to introduce it) teach their pupil this as soon as possible?

    The word 'Emergency' should make people sit up and think.

    Whether or not this is part of the curriculum in Ireland is besides the point.

    Every pupil who is ready to go out on the main road should know how to do this. Full Stop, NO exceptions.

    If you are driving and your instructor is momentarily distracted how confident are you that you will react the correct way if a child runs out between parked cars on the road?

    On your next lesson do yourself a favour, ask your instructor to show you the Emergency Stop procedure.

    He/She should not refuse this request.

    Am I wrong in thinking you just push hard on the brake. And when you're close to stopping, you push in the clutch?
    In wet weather with non anti-lock brakes, you'd need to be a bit more gentle with the brakes.


  • #3
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Cathalog wrote: »
    Am I wrong in thinking you just push hard on the brake. And when you're close to stopping, you push in the clutch?
    In wet weather with non anti-lock brakes, you'd need to be a bit more gentle with the brakes.

    I'd go with that. In fact its second nature for me now to engage the clutch when braking hard. A check of your mirrors afterwords too would be good.

    Without ABS I wouldn't be breaking any softer, sometimes the lock point is a lot further away then you think, other times it can be a lot closer then you can think (wet road vs greasy-just-had-a-shower road). Best idea for this imo, is to find an empty car park and find out how your car behaves with locked brakes and how to react when it happens (ie reduce the braking pressure until the wheels are no longer skidding). Wheels are providing the most friction at the point before skidding. Skidding wheels don't provide a lot of friction.


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