Hi guys,Was cruising along my town highway and there was an accident up in front. So as kehpoh malaysian, the 3rd car infront of me emergency brake (i think due to eyes not on road and on accident), so the 2nd and 3rd car behind him also emergency brake. But it is too late and caused a 3 car pile up. I am the fourth car and thanks to E39 excellent ABS i managed to stop on time :top: if i'm not mistaken the 1st car was a MPV, 2nd and 3rd car was a proton and perodua... luckily no car behind me though..else i would have been banged... Thanks to my E39 again..am so proud i owned this baby! :wink:
My E39 saved me again!
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I think the first car, the MPV, had ABS too and the other two behind him didn't. Your E39 could have also kena from behind because of its ABS too good 
It is always a good idea to keep an eye of how close others are behind you and go to the left lane to let them pass if they are too close for comfort.
It is always a good idea to keep an eye of how close others are behind you and go to the left lane to let them pass if they are too close for comfort.
phas3r;770098 said:
This is truely Malaysia Style baby !!!!!!! hehehehehehhe
I always notice that behind car just only 2 foot away from my car. And i always purposely slow down if they purposely too near my car.............hahahhahahha
+1 more here. I estimate how much braking I need to do stop my car before the obstruction with space to spare while at the same time keeping an eye on my rear to see if the guy behind has enough while considering swerving to another lane or off the road if he doesn't.haywire;770716 said:
One technique I use when going on LDP is to jam my brakes hard first, much harder than needed to stop my car, then I ease off my brakes and lets my car coast a little bit before stopping it fully before the obstruction. This causes the driver behind to panic from the sight of my braking and my car appearing like it is an emergency stop. Hence he/she would jam the brakes harder and give more room for error.
When you've seen and experience so many near-accidents with the worst kinds of drivers along the LDP, you learn to use stuff like this to make sure the fella behind isn't lovey-dovey talk on the phone with his darling while driving or stoning at the wheel.
If the fella wasn't following so close behind in the first place, then he wouldn't panic at all when I brake like that.
If the fella wasn't following so close behind in the first place, then he wouldn't panic at all when I brake like that.
Okay, "panic" isn't the best word to describe what I'm trying to invoke in the driver behind me. I'm trying to give that sense of greater urgency to the driver behind to be harder on his brakes.
I find that, often times the red brake light coming on isn't enough of an alert for others, especially when you've been in a long traffic jam for hours. Seeing a flashing red light is not taken with much weight and urgency as you would elsewhere.
So if a situation where you are lightly on your brakes, but still continue to let your car glide closer to the obstruction, the driv behind would often not take into consideration any margin for error. And what happens if a real emergency occurs in front of you and everyone jams their brakes harder? Your brake lights are already shining to the driver behind, and he will only notice something is up when he sees your rear getting closer all of a sudden.
My method is to wake up the driver behind to keep a little more distance behind me by provoking an instinctual reaction from the sight of a car's rear approaching him faster than he would expect. Thus breaking him from the deadlock of contentment that every car wil always gently brake in front of him.
Obviously I don't try to jam my brakes that hard till the driver behind will potentially crash, but I monitor the distance of the car behind and just brake that little bit harder first and ease up on thebrakes after.
All this may be measured in mili-seconds but it all adds up to a big differentiate between a close call and a hefty repair bill.
I find that, often times the red brake light coming on isn't enough of an alert for others, especially when you've been in a long traffic jam for hours. Seeing a flashing red light is not taken with much weight and urgency as you would elsewhere.
So if a situation where you are lightly on your brakes, but still continue to let your car glide closer to the obstruction, the driv behind would often not take into consideration any margin for error. And what happens if a real emergency occurs in front of you and everyone jams their brakes harder? Your brake lights are already shining to the driver behind, and he will only notice something is up when he sees your rear getting closer all of a sudden.
My method is to wake up the driver behind to keep a little more distance behind me by provoking an instinctual reaction from the sight of a car's rear approaching him faster than he would expect. Thus breaking him from the deadlock of contentment that every car wil always gently brake in front of him.
Obviously I don't try to jam my brakes that hard till the driver behind will potentially crash, but I monitor the distance of the car behind and just brake that little bit harder first and ease up on thebrakes after.
All this may be measured in mili-seconds but it all adds up to a big differentiate between a close call and a hefty repair bill.
