What's it doing now?

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What's it doing now?

Postby 3WE » Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:30 pm

After several hundred successful stop light encounters, my situational awareness was off a bit this am...I watched a light change to yellow and decided I should proceed. But then I realized I was way too far away and the light went full red! Yikes, ABORT!

I knew that my Toyta had 'autobrakes' of sorts...when you make sudden, hard brake applications it senses the suddenness and significantly increases the braking... I even sensed brief activation of ABS.

So, here I am (without a braking performance monitoring system) seeing that things are good and that I will stop just fine (based on 46 years of braking for red lights)...

...so I let off the brake pressure just a bit, and suddenly the "brake boost" cuts off and goes to normal...Took me a second to analyze that unexpected reduction in braking and darned if I did wind up most of the way across the cross walk...

TOTAL DISASTER!!!!!! averted, but I did pass through a layer or two of Swiss cheese and it does feel weird when HAL gets between you and your inputs and supposedly trying to be helpful...ummm, what's it doing now?
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Re: What's it doing now?

Postby Not_Karl » Mon Oct 17, 2016 4:59 am

After several hundred successful stop light encounters, my situational awareness was off a bit this am...
(...)things are good and that I will stop just fine (based on 46 years of braking for red lights)...
(...)Took me a second to analyze that unexpected reduction in braking (...)
That's the reason why written procedures are so important and must be always followed, regardless of experience.
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