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>David Ames (wildone@union4.su.swin.edu.au) wrote:
>> The police around here regually set up speed cameras/radar traps on one 
>> hill in particular, the hill is so step that if you put the car in 
>> nutural at the top of the hill, you can be doing 120 at the bottom of the 
>> hill with out a problem.  It is VERY dificult to do 60 comming down the 
>> hill (without baking the brake fluid).

The reason for not going too fast still applies if the slope is downhill - 
namely that if you need to stop or manouver quickly to avoid killing a child 
or someone else in a car, then you will have time and space to do so. In fact 
this applies even more on a downhill slope, as you need a longer stopping 
distance to compensate for the contribution gravity makes to your speed.

These rules are not some sort of game. Go and see a real crash someday. The 
whole sorry point about road safety is that no-one taps you on the shoulder 
and warns you there's an emergency coming up. It just happens, like that. The 
other sorry point is that most young drivers have little experience of 
dangerous situations, and thus presume they don't happen.

The way to slow down going down a hill is to switch to a lower gear, not try 
to use your brakes. 

Tony Healy