> Also, unless you're driving some kind of monstrously powerful performance special, your brakes can overpower your engine.
I've seen a few combinations of engine power and breaking power of car, and if I remember correctly, the breaking power was around 5x to 10x that of the engine.
It kinda makes sense, if you accelerate to 100km in 6s, you certainly don't want the breaking process to take the same time, but significantly less. 0.6s to 1.2s sound more reasonable to me.
If anybody has good data that compares these two powers in common vehicles, I'd like to see it, a quick search didn't find much useful.
The guy calculates the brakes of a late-model Corolla as almost 1000hp: if you stomp the brakes, you are coming to a stop. People in the UA cases are stomping the pedal; just the wrong one.
Stopping times vs. accelerating times are not even telling the whole story - the brake system is often not the limiting factor in stopping, it's frequently the friction of the tires on the road.
I've seen a few combinations of engine power and breaking power of car, and if I remember correctly, the breaking power was around 5x to 10x that of the engine.
It kinda makes sense, if you accelerate to 100km in 6s, you certainly don't want the breaking process to take the same time, but significantly less. 0.6s to 1.2s sound more reasonable to me.
If anybody has good data that compares these two powers in common vehicles, I'd like to see it, a quick search didn't find much useful.