matthew.brough Posted July 6, 2014 Posted July 6, 2014 My car has one of those electronic handbrakes that you press and it puts it on rather than the traditional method. Driving along I wondered if the manufacturer had put any safeguards ie it only works when or actually stationary and how devastating the results might be if a child pressed it in error whilst doing 70 on the m6. The interest got the better of me and I can confirm that the manufacturer clearly didn't consider some idiot pressing it whilst the car was moving as a possibility. www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/
norman Posted July 6, 2014 Posted July 6, 2014 My wife's old car had one, it wouldn't work over 7mph which was a pisser when I was trying to handbrake it in the snow. Also it was under the rhs where only the driver could reach. What car Matthew? Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
matthew.brough Posted July 6, 2014 Author Posted July 6, 2014 I've got a Astra on hire for the week as mrs Matt wanted to keep our car at home. Not that she goes anywhere Ha ha.Broken hand break cable? Hope not, it's parked on a hill I was at another alarm company this afternoon for a social visit and they had a nice big egress button by the front door. Despite the fact the front door was wide open had to have a few presses making the ACT controller sound like it was tapping morse code www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/
RichL Posted July 6, 2014 Posted July 6, 2014 Hope not, it's parked on a hill It amazes me the number of people who dont park in gear. Originally said by Charles Babbage On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
PeterJames Posted July 6, 2014 Posted July 6, 2014 My car has one of those electronic handbrakes that you press and it puts it on rather than the traditional method. Driving along I wondered if the manufacturer had put any safeguards ie it only works when or actually stationary and how devastating the results might be if a child pressed it in error whilst doing 70 on the m6. The interest got the better of me and I can confirm that the manufacturer clearly didn't consider some idiot pressing it whilst the car was moving as a possibility. How else would you do handbrake turns?
matthew.brough Posted July 6, 2014 Author Posted July 6, 2014 It amazes me the number of people who dont park in gear. I do, that might be the only thing keeping it where it is www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/
goncall Posted July 6, 2014 Posted July 6, 2014 I do, that might be the only thing keeping it where it is hope you have turned your wheels in..
matthew.brough Posted July 6, 2014 Author Posted July 6, 2014 hope you have turned your wheels in.. You press my buttons most days and no I didn't. Might get a parking fine if my wheels outside the white lines. www.securitywarehouse.co.uk/catalog/
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