Comment by swiftcoder
18 hours ago
> I used to wonder about the possibility of using thrusters to decelerate for impending crashes
We could just put oversizes brakes on cars to achieve this. Have you seen the stopping distance of a Formula 1 car with its giant brakes?
Formula 1 cars also have massive amounts of heavily engineered downforce and negative camber to give them insane amounts of grip. Pretty much every street car has enough braking power to lock its brakes in almost every condition but doesn’t have nearly the grip to utilize it.
Bigger brakes != more stopping power.