On Aug 31, 2005, at 4:39 PM, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> Isn't "x-axis" acceleration due to typical hills liable to be MUCH
> smaller than acceleration caused by  even gentle breaking?

(and in fact the "databrake" Jinx mentions only does anything for
"hard" baking.  Victory Dance!  ($198.  Wow.))

As for driver habits, the idea is not so much to alert the person
behind you exactly what is happening, but to do something unusual
so that they have a clue that SOMETHING is happening.  It wouldn't
work if they were following too close, but might work very well
indeed for those cases where the following distance is relatively
large (and the driver is therefore paying LESS attention to the
car in front of them.)  It's already recommended (?) that you
flash your brakes when you're required to slow down to a rate
(or AT a rate) atypical for the environment you're in...

BillW
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