OxBrew
Active Member
Sometimes I just let it (phantom) brake for a while to see if it can recover, if there's no one around. Maybe they waited 2 seconds for the heck of it?Not it didn't. I'm sure that's what it felt like, but those numbers don't work. Best case braking for passenger tires on warm, dry pavement (and this is winter, and there's snow on the ground in VA!) is about 0.7G, or 15 mph/sec. Getting down 35 mph thus takes a little more than two full seconds, with the ABS fully engaged and hearing rubber squealing at the edges of your grip. It didn't take you two seconds to get your foot to the pedal; typical reaction time in an emergency is about 1/4 to 1/8th of that.
I can imagine that might be what they did.