BRAKING POWER
INTERESTING TABLE OF CAR STOPPING DISTANCES. Owners of cars are prone to leave the braking of their cars until it actually goes wrong instead of testing the system at intervals to make sure everything is right. The appended table will give a very fair idea as to how efficient the brakes are. Calculated on a co-efficient adhesion of .8 — a figure seldoni exceeded in practice — the following may be regarded as a good standard of stopping distances on dry, level roads, four-wheel brakes being employed: — At 10 m.p.h., car stops in 4ift. At 20 m.p.h., cars stops in 17ft. At 30 m.p.h., car stops in 37£ft. At 40 m.p.h., car stops in 68ft. At 50 m.p.h., car stops in 150ft. At 60 m.p.h., car stops in 150ft. At 70 m.p.h., car stops in 213ft. At 80 m.p.h., car stops in 266ft.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 205, 22 April 1932, Page 7
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