My man, driving on public roads with only your e-brake to stop is reckless. It endangers other road users. I don’t care if this guy burns down his own car and subsequently catches his home on fire, all due to an electrical short, but it will suck if it goes up in flames in a parking lot and takes down some other innocent, poor person’s car.
I was once a struggling, working student driving an older car. I did what I needed to do to keep it running. I didn’t endanger others, however.
Ok tell me the other options I could have taken to go to work in order to make the money to repair my car aside from what I did. Walking is out, it was a 30 min drive, and I live in the us so public transportation is out, uber didnt exist at that time and a taxi would be so expensive, I may as well fix my car. So now you know the situation.
Please enlighten me what other “safer” options were available that I missed aside from loosing my job and finding myself homeless.
You ever had your brake booster diaphragm bust while you’re driving?
Probably not, but I have. You know what happens? That brake pedal is gonna kick back with full force, and it’ll take either both of your feet and/or the emergency parking brake to slow/stop the vehicle.
Of course not ideal, but if shit goes wrong on the road, you should absolutely already be prepared in your own mind as to alternate ways to slow/stop your vehicle.
Yes, that’s why it’s called an emergency brake. In fact, licensing tests used to require that you demonstrate the ability to safely stop the vehicle using it. However, choosing to drive on public roads with only a functioning e-brake is absolutely reckless.
Again, back in the Boomer era, the driver’s license test required you to stop the vehicle using the emergency brake. It’s called an emergency brake because that’s the backup in case the hydraulic (or, before that, purely mechanical) braking system failed. Believe it or not, until relatively recently, people did not have complete faith in their automotive braking systems.
Your comment is just another myth that gets propagated among young people on sites like Reddit, like the one about how windshield wipers turn themselves on when they sense a wreck.
What the fuck are you talking about? Have you ever even tested your parking brake?
I have, because of said emergency situation. Guess what?
One wheel ALWAYS locks up and slides on the road, because parking brake is NOT an emergency brake, and does not implement the antilock brake system.
Wherever the fuck they taught you to drive as if the parking brake is supposedly an emergency brake, well they taught you how to slip and slide your vehicle off the road.
Parking brake is intended to keep the vehicle from rolling downhill, particularly when on a steep hill and/or when towing a trailer. NOT meant as a mainline brake! That shit is fucking dangerous as fuck when used while actually driving!
Whoever the fuck taught you to drive needs to lose their driver’s ed license, cuz that’s straight up fucked up, even in redneck world.
If your brake booster goes out, you’re safer just jamming both feet on the brake pedal with full force. Now on the other hand, if someone cut one of your hydraulic brake lines, well that’s a totally different problem. In that case I’d carefully utilize the parking brake, and then go find and beat the ever loving shit out of the person that cut my hydraulic brake line…
My man, driving on public roads with only your e-brake to stop is reckless. It endangers other road users. I don’t care if this guy burns down his own car and subsequently catches his home on fire, all due to an electrical short, but it will suck if it goes up in flames in a parking lot and takes down some other innocent, poor person’s car.
I was once a struggling, working student driving an older car. I did what I needed to do to keep it running. I didn’t endanger others, however.
I’m glad to hear your life has been privileged enough were you weren’t forced to do that.
Ah yes, the old “I make decisions that endanger others and justify it by calling responsible people privileged” angle. Always a winner.
Ok tell me the other options I could have taken to go to work in order to make the money to repair my car aside from what I did. Walking is out, it was a 30 min drive, and I live in the us so public transportation is out, uber didnt exist at that time and a taxi would be so expensive, I may as well fix my car. So now you know the situation.
Please enlighten me what other “safer” options were available that I missed aside from loosing my job and finding myself homeless.
You go right ahead with that train of thought.
You ever had your brake booster diaphragm bust while you’re driving?
Probably not, but I have. You know what happens? That brake pedal is gonna kick back with full force, and it’ll take either both of your feet and/or the
emergencyparking brake to slow/stop the vehicle.Of course not ideal, but if shit goes wrong on the road, you should absolutely already be prepared in your own mind as to alternate ways to slow/stop your vehicle.
Yes, that’s why it’s called an emergency brake. In fact, licensing tests used to require that you demonstrate the ability to safely stop the vehicle using it. However, choosing to drive on public roads with only a functioning e-brake is absolutely reckless.
You chucklefuck, it’s not even called an emergency brake, it’s called a parking brake.
Figured I’d find fools like you.
The parking brake is meant to help hold the vehicle in place when parked on a hill…
Again, back in the Boomer era, the driver’s license test required you to stop the vehicle using the emergency brake. It’s called an emergency brake because that’s the backup in case the hydraulic (or, before that, purely mechanical) braking system failed. Believe it or not, until relatively recently, people did not have complete faith in their automotive braking systems.
Your comment is just another myth that gets propagated among young people on sites like Reddit, like the one about how windshield wipers turn themselves on when they sense a wreck.
What the fuck are you talking about? Have you ever even tested your parking brake?
I have, because of said emergency situation. Guess what?
One wheel ALWAYS locks up and slides on the road, because parking brake is NOT an emergency brake, and does not implement the antilock brake system.
Wherever the fuck they taught you to drive as if the parking brake is supposedly an emergency brake, well they taught you how to slip and slide your vehicle off the road.
Parking brake is intended to keep the vehicle from rolling downhill, particularly when on a steep hill and/or when towing a trailer. NOT meant as a mainline brake! That shit is fucking dangerous as fuck when used while actually driving!
Whoever the fuck taught you to drive needs to lose their driver’s ed license, cuz that’s straight up fucked up, even in redneck world.
If your brake booster goes out, you’re safer just jamming both feet on the brake pedal with full force. Now on the other hand, if someone cut one of your hydraulic brake lines, well that’s a totally different problem. In that case I’d carefully utilize the parking brake, and then go find and beat the ever loving shit out of the person that cut my hydraulic brake line…