Re: Audi R8 V10 Plus (2017 model) - Short Review
noone1:Itsme:noone1:BTW, on the autobahn, brake performance will not be what determines if you get rear ended when doing an emergency brake from 200 kph with a car behind you. 200 kph = 55 m/s. The reaction time for the car behind you will most likely be, at the low end, 1 second. It takes time not only to react to the lights, but also to move your foot from the accelerator to the the brakes. If it takes them even 1s to react, they'll have already traveled 55 m closer to you.
No. I am not able to decrease my speed to from 55m/s to 0 m/s in the first second of my braking.
Sorry, explained that wrong. I meant his overall braking distance will be 55m closer to you overall due to that 1s delay in reaction time.
If you're in the 911 TTS and RC is in the R8, and you brake at 200 kph, you will travel 127m from the moment you press the brakes. RC on the other hand will travel 195m from the moment you press the brakes, not 140m. He will still come to a stop in 140m from the moment he touches the brakes, but he will not brake the moment you do, thus unless you are 68m ahead of him (13m + 55m), you will get rear-ended.
That is why we (German) all learn in driving school: no distance less than half the speed in meter (going 200 km/h smallest distance 100m). Well, difficult to realize in reality
If your distance between you and the car in front of you is smaller and the police catches you you have to pay a fine (if the distance is really small you can loose your licenses). The police likes to measure this distance from Autobahn bridges, that is the reason why we have sometime those strange white markers on the street (measurement could happen without those markers). The punishment is much tougher than simple speeding. If you are involved in a crash you can get some trouble with your insurance