Road rules / 🇦🇺 speed

Travelling downhill, your stopping distance:

✓ ANSWER

Increases, so slow earlier and use a lower gear on long descents

Gravity works against your brakes downhill, lengthening stopping distances.

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  1. ✓Increases, so slow earlier and use a lower gear on long descents
  2. ✗Decreases because of gravity
  3. ✗Stays exactly the same
  4. ✗Only changes for heavy vehicles

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