CarlP wrote:
I've never felt so vulnerable in my whole life. I guess the problem is that when faced with a situation on a road, you generally have three ways out: slow down; speed up or steer out of the way; or some combination of those three. Now in the car I currently have, the vehicles ability to accelerate its way out of danger is almost entirely removed above 30mph, and it's bloody scary!
Heh, the car I currently drive (and indeed the only car I have driven, bar my instructor's car when I was learning) is a 1.2. It accelerates OK from 30-50 in 3rd, but after that you may as well be at top speed in terms of overtaking. Forces things like overtaking to be planned much more in advance, which is probably good from a safety point of view as it requires looking and thinking further down the road. The problem is that it means things like starting to accelerate towards a car I intend to overtake 1/4 mile down the road on the extremely short bit of dual carriageway, so judgement is called for! However it's usually possible to abort the manouvre if it's unasafe - I'd say the brakes on my car are actually pretty good, can get down from 70-50 in no time at all (which seems to be the typical slowdown required to abort an overtake). Never had to use them in an emergency situation above 10 mph yet. I may have to go and find a deserted road to test my emergency stopping powers, tbh.. Wouldn't be nice if the first time I have to put the brakes to the test is when a child runs out in front of me...
Um. I kind of forgot what point I was making. But never mind.
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