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Originally Posted by jamesw1024
Sorry to buck the trend but I did a Prodrive driving day - part of it is a talk by a police driver. He said that statistically automatics are involved in fewer rear shunts at traffic lights, simply because they tend to sit with their foot on the brake. He advised us to do the same.
So now I put the handbrake on but still use the footbrake too - by order of the police  |
This kind of makes sense.
Brake lights tell you that a car is slowing or stationary, so means that if you are approaching from the rear, you know that YOU will need to slow/stop.
So a good thing in my book, having given it a couple of minutes thought