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Technology / Re: Does regenerative braking have a hazardous complication?
« on: Today at 09:55:44 »[ These days Her = HisVery woke. Or possibly medieval, depending on how you look at it.
And speaking of the middle ages, should mine horse decide on a whim to stop suddenly without illuminating its posterior lantern, wouldst not the following rider be liable should he collide with us?
Not entirely irrelevant. The father of a childhood friend was unable to claim insurance for a hoofprint in the bonnet (hood) of his Daimler Dart (O blessed memory) because the Usurers of Lloyds Coffee House said he must have been driving too close to said animal.
Yea, bang up to date, forsooth, you may have seen recent TV footage of a couple of riderless horses cantering through London and colliding with various horseless carriages. The official explanation that they were military horses (as indeed they were) spooked by a loud noise (ibid) makes one wonder: hath not the British Army adopted ye musket, nay even the drum and bugle? Or were they perhaps Special Forces steeds trained with rubber shoes and covert whinnies?