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Others have certainly done that, so it can be made to work.

I don't think emergency stopping is the only application, though; it looks like the inventor uses her brake routinely.

I haven't tried it, but the butt brake lever seems to me to fit the application pretty well. Cyclists needing quick braking develop the habit of shift backwards on the saddle, or over the back of the saddle anyway. This helps to counteract the unweighting of the rear wheel that occurs with heavy brake application.

With the butt brake, an existing reflex is repurposed -- clever.

I'd just set up an inertial surge brake.

http://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/25756/how-to-build-surge-brakes-on-bike-trailer

That way, you can concentrate on emergency stopping rather than spanking yourself...

Yep, either a separate brake lever you can clip on and off or some way of hooking it into the existing brake system would be far better. Butts just don't have the response time, to say nothing of the ungainly pose needed.

An excellent idea for people who ride with their *pets, especially on hills.
An upgrade to this might be to make a flexible quick connection to the rear brake cable so it would just operate using the normal rear brake lever, although using your ass to stop is hilarious and fun.

I must admit, from the title, I expected something more like the flexigrip controls on Mr/s Garrison's 'IT'.

The best way to explain it is that the Founding Fathers of the U.S. basically predicted that someday there could be an outcome like the most recent election, where people voted based on their emotions (fear, anger, hatred--all the Dark Side stuff) and not on logic or reason.

The Founding Fathers didn't trust the common man to be educated enough to always make reasonable decisions and wanted to ensure that there was a brake in place to prevent "mob rule." That "brake" is the Electoral College, a collection of (ostensibly) politically-educated individuals who could prevent demagogues (like Trump) from taking power.

I think this is the first time in history where the Electoral College can do the job it was intended to do. If the Electors put aside political partisanship, they'll recognize how putting a completely inexperienced, hate-inducing liar into the White House is a terrible idea and ensure Trump doesn't get the Presidency.

Of course, Electors not voting along party lines is in actuality highly unlikely to happen as, in the end, Electors are all long-standing and high-ranking Democrat or Republican Party members. I mean, if you were a Republican Elector whose party had spent the last eight years without a Presidential win, watching time and again as legislation in a Republican controlled congress gets vetoed down by a Democratic president, even a man like Trump is going to start to look tempting. So the safe bet is that Trump gets elected anyway and the Elector College proves itself again to be a pointless institution for this and all the other reasons explained in the video.

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Every car in America also comes with a free handgun in place of an emergency hand brake because fuck you and the person in front of you. After you rear end your highway opponents, expect to deal with road rage reprisals. Luckily you have a handgun at the ready. But so does the other guy. Shoot him immediately or he will shoot you.

This also explains why the police murder so many drivers. For fuck's sake every car is sold with a gun! It's fucking America, fuck you: LEAVE.

No parking brake? By choice?

That turned out way better than when I did that with a U-Haul truck in town. My truck rolled back about 1/2 block before turning into a neighbors yard and taking out their fence, mailbox, and front landscape. I was incredibly lucky it didn't hit 20 cars on the way there. These days I don't even have a parking brake in my car, so if I have to leave it unattended, I have to turn it off and leave it in gear.

Braking. Best done sideways.

(on gravel)

Look Mutter, nein helmut!

“The vision vehicle will act with foresight and is able to protect the rider at any time,” says Heinrich. Driver assistance features will continually monitor the environment, the route, the speed, the angle of lean, and myriad other factors, intervening to ensure the rider can’t crash. Gyroscopes keep the bike upright when stationary, so you can’t even fall when stopped. BMW’s roughly an eternity from actually telling riders to ditch traditional safety gear, but things like traction control, hill start assist, and antilock brakes are already making it harder to kill yourself on two wheels.
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/bmws-motorcycle-tomorrow-feels/

I have an hour long commute by car to get to work, and again to get back home. But I chose the commute to, as said in the video, own my own home and be able to get a bigger home than I would have had I bought closer to work.

Here's why I don't consider it stressful...

I work 12 hours four days a week, so that's one less day I need to commute. I also have the luxury of being able to work from home two of those days.

On the days I do have to go in, half of the drive is back country roads which I often get to myself. I find a nice country road quite soothing to drive on. And the half of the commute spent on city motorways I reduced the stress on by upgrading to a car that does a lot of the driving for me. I set the top speed I want to go and the car takes care of the accelerating and braking and keeping in the lanes.

I load up the car stereo with audio books and have a nice relaxing drive to and from the office. Now the most stressful part of the journey is having to get up at 5am. Which really does suck.

but, but, but.... how is this any different from the magical car that checks, tops up, and changes its oil all by itself AND rotates it tires and renews its brakes on a regular basis... or the mysterious toilet that gets plugged up and, as if by magic, gets cleared again sometime after Daddy gets home....

I usually enjoy RJ stuff but this was just sorta... crap...

And I know it's odd to pick out one suspension of disbelief failure, but seriously, if your brakes go out, turn off the fucking car and it will stop...