I consider brakes the most important part of any sports car – the ability to safely bleed speed, and stop immediately, is critical.
Mr. Davis, who was hit twice and started bleeding heavily, sped east along Spring Street, losing control at the Avenue of the Americas, where his sport utility vehicle struck the director, Jhoan Camitz, 38, who was preparing to cross the street, the police said.
The carbon-carbon brakes bled off speed at an astonishing rate, and by the time I had to turn left, I was able to glide through the corner with no more drama than easing into a shopping-mall parking space.
The cover was thin in places, scratchy and fast, so I held an edge to bleed some speed before I made a hard left into the next steep section, after which another left took me down through a series of sharp ramps known as the Bumps, to a bobsled-like runout snaking above a creek.
Francisco hailed a cab and tried to stop the bleeding as they sped across the highway overpass to Mercy Hospital.
Mr. Boulis, bleeding profusely, also sped off and drove several blocks before crossing the center lane into oncoming traffic, grazing a pickup truck and crashing into a tree.
Strangers used belts as makeshift tourniquets to stanch bleeding, and then others sped the wounded to hospitals in the back seats of cars and the beds of pickup trucks.
The choice of thoracic or abdominal aortic clamping should be determined according to the site of bleeding, available surgical skill, and speed.
This massively integrated analysis will speed the transition from bleeding edge experimentation to standards as solutions and data interpretations move from early-adopter stage to the good-enough stage where they will compete on ease-of-use, speed, and cost.
