It would presumably work if you stopped QUIICKLY and COMPLETELY. But if
slowed down to, say 30 MPH, and maintained that speed, you would have the
engine in a low gear (assuming an automatic transmission) running at almost
full power, with all of that power going into heating up the brakes. They
would burn up real quickly.
The fact that many cars are way over-powered
doesn't make it any easier.
Doug
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, David Hillman
<hillman@planet-torque.com> wrote:
> From: David Hillman
<hillman@planet-torque.com>
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Toyota Pedal Brouhaha
>
To: "'Team shop-talk'" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
> Date: Tuesday, February 2,
2010, 4:24 PM
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Gerald Brazil
> wrote:
> > If you just
turn the key off you loose power steering
> and brakes.....
>
> Speaking
of brakes... where are
> they? No modern car has more engine horsepower than
> brake, unless really poorly maintained. 60-0 in, say,
> 125' takes what,
less than 2 seconds? How many cars go
> 0-60 in under 2?
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