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As Jared Diamond and others have shown us, this is how civilizations commit suicide, by slamming their foot on the accelerator at the exact moment when they should be putting on the brakes.

One of the things they were able to do from the chase car is apply the brakes on the other car, simply by hacking the computer.

They were able to disable the brakes.

They were able to take over a bunch of critical computers inside the car: the brakes computer, the lighting computer, the engine, the dash, the radio, etc., and they were able to perform these on real commercial cars that they purchased using the radio network.

Well it would lead you to put in Porsche brakes, a Ferrari engine, a Volvo body, a BMW chassis.

The fact that a single satellite can help us put the brakes on global warming is truly remarkable.

I slammed on the brakes.

In the same way that a good racing driver relies on cues to decide when to apply the brakes, when to turn into a corner, we need to help our physicians and our nurses to see when things are starting to go wrong.

So you can't step on the brakes very quickly.

So let's say that we work hard, and we actually don't just tap the brakes, but we step hard on the brakes and really reduce emissions and eventually reduce concentrations.

So we're looking at this graph, and along the bottom is how often does the car apply the brakes when it shouldn't.

And the vertical axis is how often the car is going to apply the brakes when it's supposed to to help you avoid an accident.

It doesn't apply the brakes for you, it doesn't do anything goofy, but it also doesn't get you out of an accident.

I can't tell, nor can any of our algorithms, but in the case of a driver assistance system, that means it can't take action, because again, if it presses the brakes unexpectedly, that's completely unacceptable.

Now take that car off road at night and remove the windscreen wipers, the windscreen, the headlights and the brakes.

Have you ever been cut off in a parking lot, signal light on as you steer toward your coveted spot, only to slam on your brakes at the last minute as someone pulls in front of you and steals your spot away?

You filter in the sensation of your grip tightening on the wheel, you feel your blood pressure rise, you hear the squeal of your brakes, and you notice the expression on the face of the other driver as he pulls in front of you and quickly looks away.

Remember, it's not the speed that causes the damage because the astronauts survived Apollo 10, it's the acceleration or sudden stop that causes our internal organs to crash into the front of our bodies the way we move forward in a bus when the driver slams on the brakes.

Now, according to early versions of the Big Bang theory, the universe has been expanding ever since with gravity gradually putting the brakes on that expansion.

If you connect a few neurons together into a simple circuit, you can generate rhythmic patterns of activity, feedback loops that ramp up or shut down a signal, coincidence detectors, and disinhibition, where two inhibitory neurons can actually activate another neuron by removing inhibitory brakes.

This led early builders to overcompensate, hurling trains down hills and pulling on the brakes when they reached the station.

While Montreal has become the brake pedal for stopping ozone depletion, at its beginning, it was more just like a tap on the brakes.

It was actually the later amendments to the protocol that really marked the decision to hit the brakes on ozone depletion.

Inventables Water Adventures dares you to launch yourself on a magnetically-levitating board down a waterslide so fast, so tall, that when you hit the bottom, it uses brakes to stop.

But hold on, pump the brakes.

And only this little bit, only six percent actually ends up accelerating the car and then heating the brakes when you stop.

If you're starting to think that we should just hit the brakes, that won't always be the right solution.

So, they got the frames from these big bikes, put them together with the gears from the racing bikes, got the brakes from motorcycles, and sort of mixed and matched various ingredients.

Now, we all laughed at Sting a few years ago when he went Tantric, but you fast-forward a few years, and now you find couples of all ages flocking to workshops, or maybe just on their own in their own bedrooms, finding ways to put on the brakes and have better sex.

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