On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 18:43:24 +0100, ARW wrote:

You know that you are going to get arse ended.

Do you keep your foot on the brakes so that you don't get pushed into
the car in front or do keep your foot off the brake and have two bumps
but of less severity?

Back in the day (when cars had real chrome bumpers attached to a chassis,
not modern plastic crumple stuff) the theory was that you rolled gently
forward until your bumper touched the car in front.

The impact then was transferred through your chassis to the car in front
and allegedly you didn't get your front and the back of the other car
smashed up - just the back of your car.

Think of the chrome balls toy (Newton's Cradle?), where the first ball
hits the row of balls and the one at the other end shoots away with the
middle ones not moving.

Thankfully I've never had to try this.

Cheers


Dave R

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