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Originally Posted by Easy Rider
Being in northern Florida, you can't get much of anyplace without going through mountains, or hills or whatever you call roads that are crooked and not flat.
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Doesn't sound like you have been to North Florida. It's not flat here in Tallahassee but there are only teeny little hills and nothing that I would consider twisty. Just a few miles in just about any direction from Tallahassee and it is nearly flat. It's about 400 miles to any where that has a mountain or a road that you could call twisty. People who live in the mountains would probably consider this area flat. Florida roads have curves to get around the swamps, marshland and sink holes. I have never seen anything in Florida call a mountain but there might be. Developers give crazy names to things.
Your right the road would need to be nearly dead flat and the weather conditions near perfect for this to work. However, I still would not do it. If an armadillo should suddenly or some other road hazard should suddenly appear in the road I would not want to add even a microsecond to the time it takes to stop or slow enough to avoid it. At 60 mph you will travel 86.8 feet per second. If it takes you half a second to disengage or otherwise back off the throttle you have increased you stopping distance by 43.4 feet. And what happens if you panic and forget.
I don't like any of the commercial versions for the same reason although you could argue that they work better.