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Re: Cars, engines...

Date 2025-12-13 19:32 -0500
Subject Re: Cars, engines...
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
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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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