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| Date | 2025-12-13 19:32 -0500 |
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| Subject | Re: Cars, engines... |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
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| From | CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> |
| Message-ID | <693e0587$0$27$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> (permalink) |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2025-12-13 6:40 p.m., Bobbie Sellers wrote: > > > On 12/12/25 05:19, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2025-12-12 06:49, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >>> On 12/11/25 18:42, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>> On 2025-12-11 22:28, rbowman wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:11:00 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The next car my father bought, a Peugeot 205, was the first we had >>>>>> with >>>>>> hydraulic clutch, same reservoir as the brakes. Bought maybe 1984. I >>>>>> remember the first time I drove it, my father warned me the brakes >>>>>> were >>>>>> brutal. Yet I was surprised by them, the car stopped brutally. Vacuum >>>>>> servo-assist. >>>>> >>>>> I don't think they do it as much anymore but automatic transmission >>>>> cars >>>>> used to have very wide brake pedals, presumably to allow for >>>>> braking with >>>>> your left foot. Brutal was when your manual transmission muscle memory >>>>> kicked in, you attempted to hit the clutch pedal, and got the brake >>>>> instead. >>>> >>>> I never drove an automatic car. >>>> >>>> I guess my left leg kicks differently than my right, because the >>>> pedals have different feeling, specially when the brake was not >>>> assisted and I had to push really hard (decades ago). >>>> >>>> Steering was also an exercise. No servo. Cars were lighter, though. >>>> Not over a ton. >>>> >>> >>> Ah you are a European with sensible designers. In the USA a car that >>> weighed under a ton would be foreign made except for a few >>> lightweights back in the 1930s. >> > I do not think a family sedan such as my parents used weighed under >> > 2 tons. Of course that time was over 68 years ago. And steering was >>> real exercise and brakes were unassisted. >> Uff. >> >> Did they crash often, I wonder? Difficult to stop a 2 ton box of metal >> in time. >> > > We in the USA have many lighter cars now and we still have horrible > multicar accidents usually caused by going faster than safe in bad > conditions > which include road surfaces and visibility in heavy fogs or even storms. > We had accidents yesterday in the San Francisco Bay Area involving > cars driving too fast in fog. On first responder saved his life by leaping > out of the way but they still hit his leg. > > In Sacramento, California in the years I was in HS 1951-1955 the > authorities parked heavily damaged cars on significant street corners to > show the people and young people especially how driving badly could > end. > I don't know the current yearly death counts but not long ago > it was about the same as a medium war. > > Tomahawks for the Ukraine. > > bliss You must be blessed to have lived as long as you have. Good health to you. -- CrudeSausage John 14:6
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Cars, engines... "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-11 11:11 +0100
Re: Cars, engines... rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-11 21:28 +0000
Re: Cars, engines... "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-12 03:42 +0100
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Re: Cars, engines... "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-12 14:25 +0100
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