Sentence examples for driver braked from inspiring English sources

Your correspondent's driver braked hard.

A car followed so closely that when the police driver braked, it went into the back of the police vehicle.

The BTC bus hit the Atlantic Express bus after the Atlantic Express driver braked to avoid a car that had swerved into his lane, the authorities said.

The game was to follow another car rather closely, build up speed and then wait for the red lights on the preceding vehicle to come on as the driver braked hard.

Some of the individual components were so heavy that a truck delivering one of the penstock sections sank up to its trailer bed in the road, and another was crushed when the driver braked, inadvertently snapping the chains that held the load in place.

The driver braked.

Like a Prius, the Hybrid Air system recovers energy each time the driver brakes or decelerates.

But PowerShift doesn't receive any steering input, so when set to Sport it mindlessly downshifts whenever the driver brakes.

It saves fuel, because when the driver brakes the car stores the lost kinetic energy in the battery, and when the driver hits the accelerator the electric motor kicks in, using that stored energy.

Heidfeld had been surprised by a cloud of dust caused by another driver braking in front of him while he and David Coulthard, in a McLaren-Mercedes, were side by side.

When the vehicle coasts or when the driver brakes, a generator charges the cells.