IanB wrote:TR4ffic wrote:...if I have to brake to slow for a bend I'm deemed to have misjudged the approach
I'm sorry, but IMO this seems an awfully odd approach to AD..! Since when aren’t we supposed to be using brakes? Travelling along a good road at or near NSL, how long is it going to take you to get rid of 40 odd mph to take a tight-ish bend? I don’t think the traffic behind would be very pleased…
A daft idea
Hence the reason why I wrote "There are obvious exceptions"
In this case you would be braking to aid deceleration, rather than to overcome excess acceleration which you had applied through misjudgement.
Sorry, Ian, but perhaps its the way your post comes across... I can see where you are coming from when talking about accelerating too much in clear sight of a hazard/bend that you then have to immediately brake for, but there is a big difference between 'braking ...to overcome excess acceleration which you had applied through misjudgement' and 'if I have to brake to slow for a bend I'm deemed to have misjudged the approach'
I would consider it 'the norm' to apporpriately apply acceleration and apply brakes to reduce speed in a perfectly judged approach... In my eyes at least, your obvious exceptions aren't actually exceptions...
...or have I missed something?