Are Rookies taught how to use a clutch brake anymore?

The following link is for new drivers that may want to read it.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_brake#Clutch_brake

 

#dons his flame suit as well

I actually agree with ya, Quick. The only time I down shift to stop is if I haven't hit the high range of my gears yet. If I have, I'll coast up, then grab 3rd or fourth once I hit the right speed, complete my stop, then put it in gear to take off. If the light changes, throw it in the appropriate gear and go!

My issue is that it's not like a 4-wheeler tranny with the synchro. The gears all have to be turning the same speed to grab the gear, so the stopping power that I hear being preached about just isn't there imho. All it's doing is throwing something else into the mix to take your focus off of what it needs to be on: the traffic!

 

I hope you have the heavy duty flame suit eddie. The robots are going to come out and say you just don't know any better. They will say things like you have NO control of the vehicle and will wreck your truck....one of the most asinine things I've ever heard.

 

It's alot like holding a cell phone up to your ear while driving.

99.9% of the time.....No Problem.



It's that .1% that gets ya !!!!!

 

So, thinking people who have considerably more experience than you and who disagree with you are "robots"? That sounds like the kind of thing that somebody with no real argument, but only insults, would say.



Either that, or a wheel-holder.

 

Or a yellow belly dumocrat!

 

I thought i was real cool when i started driving,, then my dad, a forty year guy, heard me grind trying to take off, he came over took me out of the truck and dressed me down to an inch of ego... I have never forgot that and still kid him about it.. he told me his dad ate on him for similar stupid things when he first started....

 

I'm done with it guy.

 

Just because you can do something doesn't make it a good idea.

And especially preaching misinformation to new drivers trying to learn the proper way to downshift in other threads is just wrong.

If it were just about what you do you'd just tell us. You wouldn't feel the need to argue with a group of many drivers who know your methods are questionable at best and try to get us to do it your way.

How is it that people born in a democracy are unable to realize when they are in a tiny minority they are most likely incorrect or misinformed? How is it they don't realize this is especially true if they are amongst a group of professionals in the same profession?

 

Did the majority think the world was flat at some point? And no....I'm not trying to "get" people to drive like me. Really I couldn't care how you or anyone else drives so long as no one is hurt or killed.