Hill Start Assist?

[spike021]

Originally Posted by TooSlow

Activated the hills start assist to try/test it before going onto the hills of San Francisco in the future. Can't believe I stalled so much and it was only a a very slight slope (my driveway no less!!). Doesn't feel natural. Guess I just have to get the timing right. I could use the e-brake, but hey the 86/BRZ comes with this feature so why not? I would only turn this on if I knew that I was going into the city. But, back to more practice first...

It takes a little getting used to the timing of the assist, TBH, and also how it's activated/engaged.

Once you figure that out it'll be natural and you won't think about it.

I went to some of those hills in SF when I first got the car and was learning to drive it. Learned both e-brake and then with hill assist.

[humfrz]

What did we ever do with a MT, before hill assist and when the emergency brake was set by your left foot?

Go figure that -


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

What did we ever do with a MT, before hill assist and when the emergency brake was set by your left foot?

Go figure that -


humfrz

And you had to reach around a massive steel and bakelite steering wheel to release it. In a two ton, 120HP, 3 speed car with no power brakes or hydraulic clutch.


I guess my great grandmother, grandmother and mother never stopped on hills.

[bcj]

The 52 suburban had a great huge curved lever with a four finger release grip on it.
Like one of the locomotive track switches you see in western movie lineman sheds.
Sticking back out of the firewall rather than forward from the trans tunnel.

It was STEEL it was.

[humfrz]

I think we lost most of the readers -


humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by bcj

The 52 suburban had a great huge curved lever with a four finger release grip on it.
Like one of the locomotive track switches you see in western movie lineman sheds.
Sticking back out of the firewall rather than forward from the trans tunnel.

It was STEEL it was.

And disengaged with a really solid THUNK

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I think we lost most of the readers -


humfrz

It does come of as we are insulting them. That wasn't the intent. If my car had hill assist I would probably use it even though I have never felt a need. Wouldn't be a feature I would look for but if it was there why not take advantage of it? Like Spike said it would feel weird at first but no doubt I would get used to it and it would become the new normal.

[Jordanwolf]

tfw I don't use hill assist or hand brake.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

It does come of as we are insulting them. That wasn't the intent. If my car had hill assist I would probably use it even though I have never felt a need. Wouldn't be a feature I would look for but if it was there why not take advantage of it? Like Spike said it would feel weird at first but no doubt I would get used to it and it would become the new normal.

Oh, I didn't mean to insult them. I was meaning that many of the readers can't remember driving a car that had a MT with three on the tree and that took a foot to set the emergency brake. -

humfrz

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Oh, I didn't mean to insult them. I was meaning that many of the readers can't remember driving a car that had a MT with three on the tree and that took a foot to set the emergency brake. -

humfrz

If I recall correctly of the 8 or 9 cars that I owned with the foot activated emergency brake only 1 of them actually worked anyway. The rest were either seized solid or the cables were broken. Took me a long time to actually start using the brake when I parked my new cars simply because I just had never done it for a couple of decades.

[Jordanwolf]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

If I recall correctly of the 8 or 9 cars that I owned with the foot activated emergency brake only 1 of them actually worked anyway. The rest were either seized solid or the cables were broken. Took me a long time to actually start using the brake when I parked my new cars simply because I just had never done it for a couple of decades.

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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Jordanwolf

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Well since some of them had little or no floor left you are actually pretty close

[bcj]

I mis-remembered. It was a pistol grip with a trigger release.
Still, could use one to menace GBH effectively.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

If I recall correctly of the 8 or 9 cars that I owned with the foot activated emergency brake only 1 of them actually worked anyway. The rest were either seized solid or the cables were broken. Took me a long time to actually start using the brake when I parked my new cars simply because I just had never done it for a couple of decades.

Well, up there, I reckon the emergency brake cables were the first to go -

Note that side pipe -


humfrz


Which reminds me of the time I was following a VW hippy bus along route 1 (coast route), in California, going downhill. He was going waaay too fast on the curvy road with a cliff on one side and a steep drop off into the ocean on the other side. I couldn't hardly keep up with him with my MG.

I didn't realize that his brakes (including the emergency brake) had failed, until he opened hid door and started dragging his foot. FINALLY the dumb shit decided to grind his hippy wagon into the cliff and came to a stop, before he went off down the cliff into the ocean -