it's considered being out of control of your vehicle and is dangerous. I'd advise you don't do it.
uses more fuel as when in gear with no throttle the road is turning your engine so it needs no fuel, if it is out of gear then it has to put fuel in to keep the engine idling.
so its better to be in gear rolling than have the clutch down rolling?
nice way to cook your brakes as your going downhill far enough to worrey about mpg
do they not teach you to use the engine to slow down nowdays
they dont teach you to slow down through the gears, only to leave it in gear until your about to stop and then press the clutch
It's not only how I was taught to drive a police car but I understand you'd fail your normal driving test for riding the clutch or coasting in neutral.
Yeah I see what your saying..
Basically providing you've got decent anticipation, full control of the car means you are able to avoid an obstacle without use of brakes.
Which makes sense.
i dont doubt it pete, i wonder how you stand with an electric car (with no engine braking) eh
when you lift (at high revs) in a diesel, there,s a hell of an extra braking force going into the drivewheels, throwing the f/r brake bias to pot fwn
Well you can use your brakes as well as having the engine braking. An extreme example would be descending a large hill, put it in a low gear and use the brakes as well, or in an emergency stop (DO NOT TOUCH THE CLUTCH UNTIL YOU'VE ALMOST STOPPED)... I remember one of my M/Cycle tutors telling me if I touched the clutch when I was doing an emergency stop I mustn't have been doing it right.
Electric cars will be a different point in that they'll be automatic (imagine that much torque through a normal clutch?) and most will be fitted with an energy harvesting system (to recharge the batteries) which will act in a similar manner to engine braking.
i agree on the long hill pete, you,re gonna get brake fade in those conditions, but why did they have to fit slipper clutches to the motogp 4 strokes ? coz they kept locking up the rear wheel on throttle lift
i think VERY few electric cars have regen
There are very few pure electric cars out there... Most at this point are hybrids, most of which have a harvesting system.