Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed

RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Nintendo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you can share your screenshot with the mechanic before you go in for repairs

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• ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For the record, in 99% of driving scenarios, you probably don’t want to press the brake and gas at the same time. For the 1%, you can do something called brake boosting. This is where on turbo cars, you brake to maintain a slower speed, at the same time you press the gas to spool up the turbo, which results in you having little to no turbo lag while racing.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You would also do this momentarily when starting from a stop on a steep upward incline, like certain San Francisco street intersections. Get the gas going slightly while holding the brake, then ease off to move forward without rolling back. Because the guy behind you is always too close for comfort.

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    • ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Similar technique would be used for manuals as well. You’d heal-toe on a hill so you don’t roll back, same with downshifting and slowing down quickly to make a turn.

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• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To perform an emergency stop (or a full stop in general, I suppose). The picture shows the brake pedal and the clutch pedal being pressed, not the gas and the brakes; you can see the accelerator to the right.

  If you don’t free the clutch while coming to a stop, you’ll probably damage your car. This is especially important in scenarios where you can’t reliably shift down fast enough to keep up with the car’s deceleration, for example when doing an emergency stop.

  In normal braking scenarios you probably want to keep the clutch engaged until you hit a low RPM (where the engine running without acceleration is trying to accelerate the car, rather than braking on engine power alone). That way, if you need to accelerate to evade, you can do so quickly without connecting the clutch first.

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• Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In an automatic car. It’s a good way to do a burn out provided the engine has enough torque and the breaking is biased to the front.

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  • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and the breaking is biased to the front.

    What does that mean, the front falls off?

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    • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nope, jus that the front breaks have more breaking force than the rear. The power from the engine will overwhelm the rear breaks, so for a standing burnout you need the front breaks to not get overwhelmed.

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      • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh my, stop it… now the rear can also catch fire?! 🤣

        just in case...

        * brakes != breaks * youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=EsfrEZRoAQwPed6Y

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