The Far Side
Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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Not long after I passed my test and was still an inexperienced driver, went down a road that takes you from the top of a big hill down to the bottom, the road being around five or six miles long with a sharp hairpin bend about half mile from the end.
Being fairly new to independent driving and not appreciating the joy of engine braking; I rode the brakes the entire way down. Towards the bottom, the smell from the brakes gave away the telltale smell that something was very wrong, and it was only on the approach to the hairpin that I realised that the brake pedal was going right to the deck and offering no retardation other than my own.
Even after forcing the car into second gear and steering left like I was in a one man yacht, I barely got round that corner.
I started to appreciate the need for escape lanes after that.
Lol
My driving instructor was adamant that I always use the break pedal and never relied on engine braking. I am still an inexperienced driver.
Is this a real concern or was the breaks of that car expired or something?
Downhill you shouldn't just use the brakes as they overheat quickly
Very real concern, at least in older and heavier cars. Hot brakes don't work well, engine braking is harmless and makes it much easier to control pace.
The best way I can describe is going down a big hill with just brakes feels like you're on a slippery steel slide, trying to use your hands to stop. Engine braking feels like you're on an escalator, where if you just stay where you are, you'll get to the bottom at a consistent speed.
Engine breaking is much cheaper on gas though