Emergency stop

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My daughter had about 25 driving lessons and I've let her have a drive in my car and I asked her to park on a hill but before we get there I'll tap the dash board then you do an emergency stop and she said I don't know how to do it ? OMG thought that was supposed to be one of the first thing an instructor teach you or was that the olden days
 
an emergency stop was one of the first things i was taught when i did my lessons (20 years ago, omg, how old does that make me sound lol) and since then, from experience, advanced driving courses (and probably bad practice) i can stop a car from 85mph to 0 in around 100 yards. I may not be facing the same direction as when i first applied the brakes, but i deffo wont be further than 150 yards, and any passengers may have skid marks of their own, but an emergency stop is something that should be taught very early on.
 
That's what I thought ? FFS £20 lesson and when she got in my car I thought she was very new to driving ffs
 
It does seem odd, you'd think it'd be one of the first things taught. Fairly important, no?

Mind you, it must be a piece of cake nowadays with ABS & all the other gadgets. I passed in 1981 ( and YOU feel old @digidude !) I was lucky the car even had a servo!
 
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I passed in 1971 (competition on?) - what's a servo?

Beats me by 2 years, I passed in 1973 in my instructors Mini and was then out in my own 1st car a 1957 Austin Cambridge that cost £25 but needed new sills costing me £15 to pass it's mot and then I had to pay £50 a year insurance which made me angry because it was twice what I had paid for the car. :Laugh:
 
I passed in 1971 (competition on?) - what's a servo?

Power-assisted brakes. Worked from vacuum off the inlet manifold. The servo even held the vacuum for a few (but not many) pedal-presses after the engine stopped. Ever noticed how it's harder to brake when being towed?
 
Power-assisted brakes. Worked from vacuum off the inlet manifold. The servo even held the vacuum for a few (but not many) pedal-presses after the engine stopped. Ever noticed how it's harder to brake when being towed?

Oh, right. Not on my Morris Minor I guess?
 
It's a double tap now. On the first you have to put down your mobile phone.:)

Edit:- Bike 64, Car 68.:'(
 
Is there any driving instructors on here can let me know the answer to my question thx

Okay, longer answer is that since 1999 the emergency stop has not been conducted as a routine part of the driving test. It is randomly selected in about a third of tests. When the procedure is taught can vary quite a bit as instructor vehicles are often dual-control. I would have thought she would have been taught it by now but they may leave it until the last minute. Driving School opinions seem to vary?
 
They obviously don't, judging by the little twonk (who passed his test two days before) drove straight into my son's brand new Audi, which was parked up.


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you should have a p plate on your cars.............passed my first test in 1969..................tchhhhhhhhhh bloody newbie drivers you lot.
 
You Old Git !! :Laugh: I'm just a whipper snapper. :rolleyes:
Yup, and looking forward to getting much older despite the impression I give at times. Apart from needing reading glasses for small print (which I usually can't understand anyway)
I'm still fully functional. Another area is unpredictable, but the desire has receded with my hairline, and the demand rarely arises, so I can just about cope.:Biggrin2:
I'm probably still physically capable of doing what I could in, say, the 30-40 bracket, but done that, what's the need? I've always thought the biggest obstacle is programmed
convention. E.g after my 60th, I suddenly felt "entitled" to groan or grunt, during bending or straightening. No pain, before or after my birthday, but difficult to stop.

Barring accidents, afaik, I can continue to live and confound the powers that be, for many years to come. I know I'm lucky, and sympathize with the genuinely less fortunate on an abstract level, but don't as yet, fully appreciate their situations. That time will come, and I've no idea how or whether, I could handle it. At the moment, my attitude is that when I decide my life is not worth living, I have the freedom to end it, provided I don't involve anyone else. I have no religious constraints, and it would be discussed with my family only, nobody else is entitled to interfere, one way or the other. That freedom has always existed for most, why it must be "rubber stamped" for some, is puzzling, lack of will perhaps. I may get to understand, have to wait and see.

Just broke off to find my old driving licenses, out of curiosity. Back now, and re-read the above. Got a bit "heavy", but not deleting it now, it's the way I feel.
I guessed at the dates, in fact each is a year older. Even more of a crock, possibly down to the contents as well.:Biggrin2:
 
i passed my test around 20years ago,
only done one emergency stop with instructor and that was on the lesson before my test...

think thats the normal method....
 
They obviously don't, judging by the little twonk (who passed his test two days before) drove straight into my son's brand new Audi, which was parked up.


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Maybe he was using........"Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk".......at the time.:Biggrin2:
 
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