Anyone tried this?

The MaDDeSTMaN · 17-05-2005, 03:29 AM

http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/A_2163/article.html

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...give them metres more time to react to the fact that you’re slowing down. You’ve heard how LED brake lights illuminate faster than filament lamps to give quicker warning? That certainly helps - but how about lighting the brake lights before you even hit the brake pedal? It’s possible to do this if instead of switching the brake lights on with the action of the brake pedal, you instead activate them when you first lift the throttle really fast.

It’s a technique unfortunately not suitable for manual transmission cars (cos the brake lights would light on every gear-change) but for auto trans cars it works beautifully.

(full text and details available at link above)

Sounds interesting to me, anyone tried it?

Steve_T · 17-05-2005, 04:00 AM

LOL, reminds me of a trick I heard a lot of rally racers used to do many years ago. Put a manual switch on the dash or somewhere to activate brake lights. In dusty conditions if a car was coming up behind you flick the switch way early before corners which makes the person behind you hit their brakes and slow up way before you do each corner and get your lead back over them lol.

Anyway back on topic - yeah sounds interesting. I quite like that idea. Can only be good from a safety point of view and would make a difference IMHO.