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Domnic Fernandes continues (Part III) his reminiscence of
Mapusa of the 1950s
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=426
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--- Valmiki Faleiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, Goa and tailgating! Few realise that a motor
> vehicle (two- or more- wheel)
> is a contraption without an *instant stop.*
> Considering minimum stopping
> distances and normal conditions, a safe driver will
> maintain one car length
> from the vehicle ahead for every 15 km/ph speed
An easier method is the "two-second gap". Whatever
speed you're going, count the number of seconds
between when the car in front of you passes a
stationary object (telegraph pole / mango tree) and
when you cross that object (mutter slowly one-thousand
and one, one-thousand and two) - if the count is less
than 2 secs, you're too close to the vehicle in front
of you.
> At a ghat,
> descend in the gear engaged on
> the way up (to avoid brake-fading, a temporary
> failure due to overheating of
> brake pads.)
i.e. use the same gear you would require to climb the
ghat, to descend it.
Cheers,
Gabriel de Figueiredo.
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