Do not Brake -2 - Saturday, July 29, 2006

We see it every day on the Don Valley Parkway northbound out of Toronto. The multi-lane freeway climbs the valley of the Don River.

We are passed, overtaken, by a vehicle going faster than us, which is braking while going uphill.

It makes no sense. It is non-sense. Or to carry on, the driver is making non-sense of their actions. They are in-sane.

Converting the energy of motion into heat on the brake pads when there is perfectly good gravity all around to assist the slow-down is another way of sending money up in smoke.

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