When the car ahead suddenly flashed brake lights, the human drivers also braked.
The scientists say their calculations have proved the brake system's reliability is so good it could be used to control systems in aircraft, trains and factories.
As the booming economy upset the God-given medieval hierarchy, secular sumptuary laws, which regulated consumption habits, were a brake on social mobility.
Many people report that when they move from the driver's seat to the passenger's seat, the car in front of them looks closer and their foot goes to the imaginary brake.
Drive slowly, going easy on the gas and brake pedals.
In this case, both the vacuum release valve and the stoplight switch are actuated by movement of the brake pedal.
At last I found the brake but it was too late to stop: I was travelling fast and the hill was too steep.
Car sensors that detect the distance between your bumper and the car in front of you can prevent a sweep of brake-slamming that can tie up traffic, for example.
As it is, high real interest rates act as a powerful brake on Japan's incipient recovery.
The rider simply squeezes the pressure-sensitive handle grip to brake and the electronics do the rest.
Crashes caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel tend to be high-speed ones, as they do not brake before crashing, increasing the risk of death or serious injury.
Paying back those loans will now be a brake on Honduras's recovery.
He had a three-brush motor, with dynamic brake and intermittent on one speed only—his system was a concatenation of a lot of different ideas.
Without friction, the brake would not work.
The four jokers took turns to leap in front of cars, forcing the drivers to swerve or brake sharply and putting themselves and other vehicles in danger, the El Pais Web site says.
The lowest bass string was broken and replaced with a motorcycle brake cable, giving certain chords a resonant buzz.
"The decision is a deplorable brake on all stem cell research," said Cirm's president, Alan Trounson.
On the one hand, the credit crunch resulting from the worldwide financial turmoil of the past few months seems bound to brake the economy next year.
Your car has worn brake shoes.
The simulation results are validated by the experiment test. So the validity and practicability of fast finite element simulation model are verified, and the model can be used in the anti-heat fade design and thermal fatigue design of the vehicle brake system.
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