Re: Driving With Two Brakes

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:42:01 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
>
>Neil wrote:
>
>> I spoke with his mother after speaking to the mechanic and after
posting
>> here. Apparently, she was unaware that the rear brakes were not
working. She
>> said, one, the place didn't tell her it was an unsafe situation. And,
two,
>> she said she thought the emergency brake had a different brake shoe
than the
>> rear brake. Thus, until I spoke with her, she thought the situation was
>> restricted to only the emergency brake, and not the rear brake itself.
>
>Why would you expect the average woman to know how car brakes work ?

Well, since the failure condition is indicated to the driver via an
IDIOT LIGHT, there is no need to understand how they work.

We also know that this woman's intelligence level is somewhere below
"idiot."
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