>>Aye, I'd forgotten the lock only operates after removing the key.
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>>The above is my thinking. My automatic has semi-automatic, triptonic, function which could help slow down.
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>Triptonic is probably far safer for driving than gintonic.

On the Chrysler it's called "Autostick"

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>>The main thing is, like I said, you don't go on uselessly pumping the brake pedal and careering round the bends.
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>That's not even looking good onscreen anymore. Whenever I see that I can justify one press to see that the breaks don't work, one to check and then do anything but. Pumping it third time, or repeatedly, looks stupid.

Like the old saying when hearing a gunshot: "I thought it was a car back-firing." I'll wager most people in the world have never heard that happening. It went out with the need to "de-coke" your carb once a year! :-)

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>>But the one that annoys me the most is the 30-60 seconds that they carry on after being forced off the road (in a got-brakes scenario), plummeting through forests, up and down ditches, etc. If my brakes were that lousy I wouldn't go on the road with the car anyway!
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>Actually, by the time you hit the slope, you'd have to step on the brakes at least a dozen times - I routinely press it at least five times before I even leave the parking. There'd have to be some gradual leakage which I'd have noticed, or something with a timed mechanism - which the perpetrator wouldn't want, it leaves too much trace, even if not mechanical but chemical. A bag of something caustic could be timed to dissolve and do damage a certain time after it was filled, but there'd be traces everywhere.
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>I think panic happens in movies only. From what accidents I've seen, there's just silence and short comments, mostly helpful. The last time a pal and I slid off the pavement and over a ditch because there was black ice on a slightly downsloped street and we were supposed to make a 90 degree within 30m from there - we had a lot of talk and time to brace for impact and I think just staying cool saved us.
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>I think the most useless words are "awmahghadweerallgonnadie". First, no point complaining to the organizer of the event, it's going as planned. Second, as if he doesn't already know. Third, yeah right we all will, but maybe not today... can't we just wait and see?

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