'braking' is a valid word in the English language, and it is often used in both spoken and written English.
It is usually used as a verb in the gerund form to mean the act of pressing down on the brake pedal to reduce the speed of a vehicle (e.g. "braking sharply" or "applying the brakes"). For example: "The driver braked sharply as a deer ran across the road."
For example, you could try "black box insurance", which enables the insurer to monitor your speed, braking and the time you drive to reward you with lower premiums for careful driving.
Even with this effort to control spending, the 2014 budget still adds an extra €3 billion of new taxes on top of those already agreed, such as an increase in VAT rates, compounding a sense of uncertainty that is braking investment and hiring.The French were fully prepared for François Hollande, the president, to squeeze the rich with taxes.
By lifting its investment in clean-tech R&D to $1.5 billion a year by 2010, the company hopes to produce more ideas like its hybrid diesel-electric locomotive, which stores the energy dissipated during braking in batteries that can be called on to power the engine later.
A further 3,100 or so deaths result from drivers braking too late.Mitigating frontal crashes and panic braking by alerting drivers to dangers ahead and, if necessary, automatically applying the brakes and even boosting the pedal pressure could go a long way to reducing the number of people (42,000) killed annually on American roads.
In electric trains, the braking energy is converted into electricity and fed back into the overhead power supply.In electric cars and hybrids like the Prius, the electric motor that drives the wheels is likewise made to run backwards as an alternator during braking.
Once the temperature drops below -25°C, they must run shorter trains because it's harder to pump air down the full length of the train to keep the braking system working.
Such gadgetry also increasingly makes decisions on the driver's behalf and overrules him in an emergency, for instance, braking to avoid a crash.Other technologies are beginning to make this easier.
The EU was so impressed with ABS's ability to save lives that it made it mandatory on all new European cars from 2004 onwards.The tendency to topple is inherent in all SUVs, but especially those with truck-like back axles and inboard leaf-springsAnother braking technology that has contributed the SUV's growing civility is traction control.
Those who refrain from braking sharply and stay off the roads at night can earn a discount of as much as 30% on the generic premium.
But there was no need to because the radar-assisted braking system on the S320 takes care of things like that for you (this was on a test track, and not the public road).
In March, an electronic fault in braking systems prompted the recall of 1.3m cars.
