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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
The Seldom Killer:
I've slowed down over rough road surfaces because I felt I didn't have sufficient control of the vehicle. Same for a road that changes quickly from being a clear straight line to twisty with off camber corners.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Loki on 18 Sep 2014, 02:11 ---As a side-note, the human body isn't really made to measure speed - only acceleration. So it feels comfortable at most speeds, as long as they are constant.
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We can't always feel the acceleration. It sometimes depends on the mass of what we're on versus the rate of acceleration. I remember the first time I took a flatmate's Jag on the motorway, I was doing 130 MPH before I looked down at the speed. I didn't feel any of it (well, a 3 tonne car will do that, even with a V12 under the bonnet). With a smaller car with the same power to weight ratio, I know I would have felt it, especially since I was used to driving small vehicles with a worse p/w ratio and noticing the acceleration.
ankhtahr:
--- Quote from: Loki on 18 Sep 2014, 02:22 ---If, for example, the car was drifting to the right or left because of technical faults, or if control was reduced due to slippery road or somesuch.
I am no driver, mind, so I have no idea whether that was what Ankh meant.
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That'd be a little extreme. When you're driving you notice how well the car follows your "commands". The sideways acceleration when you're driving a curve, how easily you can keep the lane, stuff like that. When you're in a curve and you notice that you need to actively need to watch out so you don't leave the lane (in contrast to the almost subconscious turns of the wheel one always does), or you feel like the curve is too narrow you're definitely going too fast.
Masterpiece:
Definitely what Ankh, Loki and The Seldom Killer said. If at any point during a drive I feel like I'm going to fast to still drive comfortably (be it road conditions, obstacles, tight turns, or, hey, other drivers (I'm in Turkey atm)), I have to slow down. If you feel your car isn't doing what you want it to, you HAVE to slow down.
Driving can be fun (it is for me, always) but it is a privilege and should be treated as such. If you're driving beyond your abilities you're endangering your fellow drivers and yourself.
The fastest I've ever driven was 240 km/h (approx 150 miles per hour) and it was crayzayyy, I was driving my dads' Mercedes S300 Turbodiesel 1997 and it felt like I was riding on a train. No other car I drove was ever this smooth.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 18 Sep 2014, 02:47 ---We can't always feel the acceleration. It sometimes depends on the mass of what we're on versus the rate of acceleration. I remember the first time I took a flatmate's Jag on the motorway, I was doing 130 MPH before I looked down at the speed. I didn't feel any of it (well, a 3 tonne car will do that, even with a V12 under the bonnet). With a smaller car with the same power to weight ratio, I know I would have felt it, especially since I was used to driving small vehicles with a worse p/w ratio and noticing the acceleration.
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130 MPH?
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