Leaving the M5 to join the M42 yesterday there was a Mini behind me and a Fiat 500 in front then a pretty open road for about half a mile where i spotted what looked like a police car on a transporter.
Within seconds of me seeing this the woman in the Fiat 500 in front must have spotted it too and thought she was actually behind a copper.... So she decided she was going way to fast and slammed on the hankers... Well she must have shat herself because the car started violently swerving left to right with the hazzards flashing with no skidding until she regained control or the brakes decided she was safe?
It's a good job i like to keep a fair distance from anything in front if possible but i still had to slow down a bit and so did the girl in the Mini behind... At the next junction she left... Hope there was a services so she could change her undies.
), nearly causing a pile up.... you weren't speeding the first place you f*cking dolt!!! 
It would seem the way I brake a lot of the time is to whip the pedal down to 'bite point' then ease it from there - similar (but in the opposite direction) to how you'd operate the clutch. The braking's still nice and smooth, I just get there quickly. However doing this is largely incompatible with PSA's stupid nanny-knows-best systems that you can't bloody disable... 
