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Postby Mr Revhead » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:44 am

power affects how fast you get to those speeds. the faster you accelerate the less reaction time you have.
more power = more chance for a suden loss of traction.

But, what this country needs far more than ANYTHING suggested so far is a proper compulsary driver training system.
Teach people to drive. Not just how to pass a simple test... but to actually control a car.
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Postby Adamal » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:22 pm

I'm with you on that one Rev. Thats what they have in Japan.

Although the stuff they do in Finland is pretty hardcore!
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Postby tsoob » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:36 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:power affects how fast you get to those speeds. the faster you accelerate the less reaction time you have.
more power = more chance for a suden loss of traction.

But, what this country needs far more than ANYTHING suggested so far is a proper compulsary driver training system.
Teach people to drive. Not just how to pass a simple test... but to actually control a car.


OMG i think this will be the first post i have agreed fully with you on rev.

and to all the doubters, think for a second about the posts i have just made. more power = more problems. young dudes in cars making 200kw or more are more lethal than those in a 4afe corolla.
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Postby Adamal » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:23 pm

More power = More potential
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Postby snwtoy » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:09 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:the faster you accelerate the less reaction time you have.


While strictly true, one could argue that so long as your speed at any given moment is appropriate for conditions and speed limit the rate at which it is changing is irrelevant as you could be cruising at the same speed and have the same amount of reaction time.
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Postby Mr Revhead » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:22 pm

Yep, sort of. The faster the acceleration, they higher a chance of a loss of tracion or snap oversteer or somehting like that. assuming you have enough power for that :lol:

and that would be part of driver training, ie learning to drive ot the conditions!
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