One thing about driving, we spend most of the time talking about going turning, watching other drivers, but not a lot of time about stopping. Even though it is 50% of driving - for if we go, we have to stop.
But I hear you say, as a percentage of time, we spend very little time stopping. True, but maybe that is part of the problem. We need to look at stopping the way a baseball player looks at the catch at the end of a hit. The logical conclusion.
Stopping is hard. To Stop at a Stop Sign or traffic light, you have to cease accelerating or maintaining a speed, then you have to brake so that the car will stop in an approximately 6" target. Too short and you have to accelerate to the stop line, to long and you can end up in an accident.
So stopping is important - over the next posts I will discuss some techniques and the bad habits we get into.
So this is the start to stopping.
