Downside of using Hand brake while waiting ?
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Not even slightly. Unless an auto is in Park it's effectively in neutral, and can roll back to hit the car behind. Since you are supposed to use your right foot to work the brake and throttle, you need the handbrake on to pull away. Don't blame me, a lot of serious grey men in serious grey suits nibbled biscuits and sipped tea really quietly for weeks while discussing (in committee of course) every nuance of those rules ...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Unless an auto is in Park it's effectively in neutral, and can roll back to hit the car behind.
Not in a Tesla. By default, when you press the brake until/when the vehicle is stopped, it stays in "Hold" mode until you depress either the brake or accelerator. [This is an option that can be configured away, but this is the default behaviour.]
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So basically due to injury in one of my legs, I have to reduce the strain on my legs for a few weeks. Driving is not the issue but when in city and waiting for signals, I have to keep my legs on the brake to prevent the car from going forward or backward (neutral gear) due to inclinations and I do not want to keep pressing on the brake. So What I do it using my hand brake to keep the car still. Whats is the downside of it ?
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So basically due to injury in one of my legs, I have to reduce the strain on my legs for a few weeks. Driving is not the issue but when in city and waiting for signals, I have to keep my legs on the brake to prevent the car from going forward or backward (neutral gear) due to inclinations and I do not want to keep pressing on the brake. So What I do it using my hand brake to keep the car still. Whats is the downside of it ?
Drive a Tesla and the problem is solved for you. If you have the Autopilot option, you really just need to get the car in gear when you get in and start off with some acceleration and you can control the rest of your journey mostly with your hands. The car accelerates, brakes and waits at traffic lights on its own. If you feel like doing the driving yourself, pushing the brake at a traffic light will put it in "Hold" mode, and a tap on the accelerator ("gas" sic) when the light is green will start it moving again.
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In Germany I got stopped by the police because I hadn't turned off my fog lights once I got out of the fog.
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That's indeed a law in Germany, but only the back fog light, because it's so bright. More precisely, you are only allowed to switch it (i. e. the back fog light) on when you can't see past 50m. The front fog lights may be switched on any time. And it does make sense - I don't know about cars in other countries, but in germany, the back fog light is so bright, it's worse than a car coming your way with high-beam head lamps pointing your way! You pretty much have to avert your gaze, or else you'll see nothing else on the road.
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There are also rules on the use of headlamp flashers which are the exact inverse of what they are actually used for in the real world. In theory - and you have to know this and demonstrate that on your driving test - you only use the headlight flashers to warn other drivers of your presence. In practice you flash others to say "come on through, I'll wait until you are past", or "get out of my way, I'm faster than you" :laugh:
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OriginalGriff wrote:
"get out of my way, I'm faster than you"
Sounds fine to me: you simply
OriginalGriff wrote:
warn other drivers of your presence
;P
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The first time I hired a car in the UK, I was afraid the pedals would also be inverted. Fortunately, no. I thought shifting with my left hand might be difficult, but again no. The main problem was looking the wrong way when entering traffic, so I almost wore out my neck double- and even triple-checking. :-D
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The first time I hired a car in the UK, I was afraid the pedals would also be inverted. Fortunately, no. I thought shifting with my left hand might be difficult, but again no.
For me it was simple: just do everything the other way round compared to what I was used to. The hardest part was getting back to normal when I returned to the continent - after training hard to always do it the other way round, I had lost my point of reference :-D
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For me, it was roundabouts in France - not only did I have to remember to go round the wrong way and exit at the wrong exit, but I had to struggle with " Priorité à droite" which meant that (on some roundabouts) you give way to traffic joining instead of traffic already going round.
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I have to admit that french roundabouts are a killer! X| But once you got to (and survived) Paris, you'll forget anything about rules anyway: everyone just goes whereever there's room, while watching out for others who do just that! I once read that a good way to cross main roads in Paris (Champs-Elysee or whatever), is getting a newspaper, opening and holding it up in front of you, and then crossing the street oblivious to the cars: since everyone is watching out for idiots like you they'll drive around you no problem. :wtf: The alternative is watching cars passing left and right who won't make way for you as long as you don't move. (yes there are pedestrian crossings, and they are being used... by the tourists ;P )
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