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Re:America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Stu... by thfuran on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:28PM (#21714809)
You can but very few people drive stick in the US and, of those, I suspect very few use engine breaking for a significant fraction of their braking. For getting off a highway maybe, but probably not for stop and go in a city.
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Re:America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Stu... by paulie_a on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:11PM (#21715336)
In fact engine breaking is illegal in most populated areas
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Re:America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Stu... by jandrese on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:34PM (#21716812)
This is not true. There are specific areas that ban it and have signage alerting drivers to that fact, but it is not common.

Plus, it typically only applies to Semis as their engine braking is especially noisy. On a typical gas powered sedan you would be hard pressed to identify that someone is engine braking unless you were right next to it. Being prosecuted for it would be even more exceptional.

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Re:America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Stu... by organsnyder on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:44PM (#21716922)
That kind of engine braking (the kind trucks do that's extremely loud) is completely different from "engine braking" with the transmission
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Re:America’s Air Quality Worsens, Ending Years of Gains, Stu... by macintux on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:40AM (#21721637)
This is the braking that communities post signage about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_release_engine_bra...
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