Chapter 336, Brake Door
Since buying the car, Alonso feels that life has been much better. Compared to the horse-drawn carriage used before, the car really doesn't know how much better. Pull more, run fast, and take care of it easily. Although the car is not really like the "Volkswagen" performance showcase, a guy dragged ten tons of stuff and ran around. Coach Schumacher told them that there were still some differences between that car and ordinary cars, for example, every part of the car was selected, and just like that, after the trip, when I came back for overhaul, there were still a lot of parts to be scrapped.
"So, little brother, you have to load 10 tons, you can load, but run all the way down, will you break the car in the end, this is really hard to say." That's what Schumacher said to Alonso at the time.
Therefore, Alonsu has always used this car honestly according to the product instructions. As far as loading is concerned, he has never had it carry more than five tons, and even then the car would have made him a lot of money. Because not every carriage can find four Shire horses to pull the cart. Therefore, the average freight carriage can only carry about a ton of things at a time, and he runs once, which is equivalent to five times before. What's more, he can run three times when someone's carriage runs, and this one comes and goes, and his car can almost top a convoy of others. And this thing is really not much more expensive than a carriage.
On this day, Alonso pulled another truckload of goods and sent them to the docks outside the city. It is almost thirty kilometers from the railway station to the pier, with a long downhill section about seven or eight kilometers long. The slope is not very large, but the car will gradually accelerate under the effect of gravity when it arrives here. In order to reduce fuel usage, every time he arrives, Alonso puts in neutral and lets the car slide down the ramp. Of course, in order not to slide too fast, he will also brake a little, so that he will not have a car accident because of too fast speed.
If there is a driver who drives like this in the future, he will definitely be scolded to death by the coach. Even when learning for a driver's license, the instructor will repeatedly emphasize that you should not coast in neutral at any time, and of course you should not coast in neutral when going downhill. On the contrary, not only should you not put it in neutral, but you should also put it in low gear and use the engine speed to slow it down. Especially when going downhill for a long time, you should rely on the low gear and the guò engine to brake, rather than just relying on the brakes. Because the brake is used for a long time, the brake drum will heat up after a long time of friction with the brake pads. The principle of expansion and contraction, the inner diameter of the brake drum will become larger, and the brake pads can no longer be tightly attached to the inner wall of the brake drum, resulting in a decrease in the braking effect or even brake failure.
But in this era, automobiles have just appeared, so everyone has not yet had time to discover these problems, and naturally they will not come up with corresponding solutions. Theoretically, Scrooge understood this, but Scrooge was very busy, although he mentioned that he wanted to write a normative course on safe driving, but in fact the progress of this work was very slow, because Scrooge, the only one who had knowledge in this area, was always very busy, too busy to take care of such small things, and other people lacked experience in this area, so this matter was far behind the scheduled schedule.
As a result, Alonso was not taught not to coast in neutral or how to brake with the engine when going downhill. As a result, the Aaron lock was in neutral, with the brakes plugged in, and sliding down the ramp. If it is a later generation, Alonso will not necessarily have a problem, because the brakes of later generations, even those that also use brake drums, have also taken some measures to address the problem of thermal decay, such as choosing materials with a smaller expansion rate after heating. But in this day and age, there is simply no such technology and no such preparation.
So when Alonso dragged his cargo down this downhill for the fourth time of the day, he gradually felt that something was wrong. I had already stepped on the brakes, but the speed of the car was still rising. At first, Alonso thought that his foot was not heavy enough, so he pressed harder on the brake pedal, and the speed seemed to drop a little, but it didn't take long for Alonso to find that the speed of the car that had been lowered a little bit went up again. And this time, the problem is really strict, even if Alonsu pressed the brakes to the end, he almost stepped on the brake pedal directly under the cab floor, but the car did not seem to slow down even a little, and still continued to accelerate and slide.
Alonsu looked down and saw that the speedometer pointer was already pointing 28 mph, which meant that the speed of the car was now 45 km/h. That's even more than the top speed of this car. Moreover, the pointer is still moving to the right, and in a blink of an eye, it points to 30, then 35, 40, 45, 50......
No matter how much Alonsu applied the brakes, the truck with the five-ton cargo continued to accelerate like an out-of-control beast. Alonso knew that if his car hit somewhere, such as a small tree or a wall, at such a speed, he would definitely be smashed to pieces by the car, and he himself would definitely be crushed. In the impact, the engine would crash into the cab, smashing him from the thigh down, and the cargo in the body behind him would tear through the thin sheet of iron behind the driver's seat, crashing in and crushing him to pieces.
"Maybe it's time to jump out of the car?" Alonso thought. However, she hesitated, this car is not cheap, and now the cost has not returned. Besides, there are other people's goods in the car, and if they are damaged, they will have to lose a lot of money. After such a hesitation, the last chance passed, because the speed hand was already pointing to 65, which is 105 kilometers in the metric system. In other words, Alonso inadvertently achieved a dream achievement: to become the first person on his own plane to move at speeds of more than 100 kilometers per hour.
Jumping out of the car at such a speed is simply looking for death. So Alonso can only try to control his car now, try to stabilize the beast, wait for this ramp, and slowly stop it.
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Subi was riding his newly purchased bicycle along the road towards the beach. Bicycles are nothing too new, the most primitive bicycles were already made in the eighteenth century, and in this era, in the original history, it was the kind of thing that had a large front wheel and a disproportionately small rear wheel that was popular. However, in this time and space, as a by-product of the development of automobiles, pneumatic tires, chains and so on have been made, and as a result, modern versions of bicycles have begun to heat up in the United States. Sold.
Subi's bicycle is such a latest model of "Immortal Bird" brand bicycle produced by Volkswagen, and the copycat object of this car is naturally the classic product of a large copycat country in later generations - Phoenix brand bicycle, and even the brand is a copycat.
It was all downhill for a long time, and Subi was happy not to move, so he let the bike slide slowly. Suddenly, he heard a rapid ringing (in order to save costs, the truck was not equipped with an electric horn, but a large copper bell was hung directly outside the cab, and as long as the inside of the car pulled the wire, it would make a bell-clicking sound). Subi turned his head to look back, and saw a truck rushing straight at him at an alarming speed. At that speed, Subi thinks it must be at least 50 miles. In a panic, Subi hurriedly stopped flashing to the side, but at this time, the front wheel that was about to die was pressed against a stone, and the head of the car was skewed, and Subi fell into the drainage ditch on the side of the road.
Subi was almost knocked unconscious, and it took him a long time to crawl out of the ditch, and then he counted his losses, and was heartbroken:
The sleeves of his brand-new suit were torn open a large opening, and his trousers were torn a smaller one, and anyway, the new clothes were completely ruined at once. What made him even more distressed was his bike, apparently the truck had run over his bike mercilessly. Just as the wheels of history once ran mercilessly over Macedonia, Carthage, and Rome. Now the frame of the bike is bent like an earthworm, and the front wheel is directly disconnected. Obviously, this car can only be used as scrap metal.
By this time, the car had disappeared without a trace, and only the dust it raised was still in the air.
"It's probably another one who drank too much. It's time for the government to take care of these damn drunkards! (There had been an accident of drunkard driving before this) "Subi knew that the car must have gone to the dock, he decided to walk to the dock, find the drunkard to settle the account, and must let him compensate for his losses, his own clothes, bicycles, of course, find him, and let him compensate before he can compensate, there is one more important thing that must be done, that is, beat that guy well, let him know what will happen if he offends Uncle Subi." These guys just don't owe a beating, and if they don't beat them, they won't know why the flowers are so red.
Subi angrily took two steps to that side, then turned back, first picked up the deformed bicycle, then picked up the broken wheel that had fallen to the ground with his other hand, and walked in the direction of the dock.
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At this time, Alonso was gasping for air in his cab. It was so scary that he almost crashed headlong into a cyclist. He knew that he was too fast at that time to turn casually, or he would overturn. So I had to ring the bell desperately. Fortunately, the guy reacted quickly and jumped into the gutter on the side of the road in one fell swoop. It shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Alonso held the steering wheel tightly with both hands, and controlled the car to slide along the road, there was a turn in front, and the speed was so fast that it would definitely overturn, Alonso carefully controlled the car and ran a tangent line along the turn, trying to reduce the turn a little, and finally when he turned the corner, the car shook violently, as if it was about to turn over, but, God forbid, come here, it's okay. It's just that there's another turn ahead......