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Oct 20, 2008 - Braking 101

Yesterday must have been Tap Your Brakes Day. I wish I had known so I could have left earlier for my 90 mile run to basketball practice. (Yes, my daughter is hooked up with an AAU team that's based 90 miles away. Please send money!)

It was Homecoming weekend at Penn State so there was a lot of traffic trying to get out of town. The first 12 miles of the trip headed towards Harrisburg is a two-lane, 55 mph road. That portion of the trip took 45 minutes. Mostly due to people tapping their brakes for no apparent reason and starting the accordian action.

Brakes were tapped because the road started to climb, or fall, or turn, or a truck was coming the other way, or sometimes for no apparent reason at all. I even had a motorcycle in front of me have his brake lights come on as he was accelerating.

I suppose somebody has to keep Dub Schwartz working!

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