Comments on: Why you really SHOULD read the manual. http://www.yourroadrisk.co.uk/2009/08/19/why-you-really-should-read-the-manual/ Clear Road Risk Management Information Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:23:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3188 hourly 1 By: uberVU - social comments http://www.yourroadrisk.co.uk/2009/08/19/why-you-really-should-read-the-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-6247 uberVU - social comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:36:48 +0000 http://www.yourroadrisk.co.uk/?p=1051#comment-6247 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by Fleet_Risk: Why you really SHOULD read the manual.: Last week I attended the scene of a minor collision within the confines .. http://bit.ly/hEQZg... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: Chris http://www.yourroadrisk.co.uk/2009/08/19/why-you-really-should-read-the-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-6112 Chris Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:46:12 +0000 http://www.yourroadrisk.co.uk/?p=1051#comment-6112 I once had the misfortune of driving a Daewoo hire car in which the handbrake had the opposite problem - when you released it and lowered it to a horizontal position, it wasn't fully off, you had to lower it BELOW the horizontal to fully disengage it. It wasn't obvious that this was even possible. I figured it out eventually having generated some smoke :-) The real problem here is archaic handbrake design, it surely isn't rocket science to design something that latches and unlatches simply and which has a visual indicator of whether it is properly locked/unlocked. I once had the misfortune of driving a Daewoo hire car in which the handbrake had the opposite problem – when you released it and lowered it to a horizontal position, it wasn’t fully off, you had to lower it BELOW the horizontal to fully disengage it. It wasn’t obvious that this was even possible. I figured it out eventually having generated some smoke :-)
The real problem here is archaic handbrake design, it surely isn’t rocket science to design something that latches and unlatches simply and which has a visual indicator of whether it is properly locked/unlocked.

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