GR translation: brakes grab and spring terribly

[David Morris]

It’s probably a reaction to the brakes grabbing:  they instantly release
and momentum makes everything “spring” forward.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 8:41 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V3.37-4.4, P4.13-17   The road, which ought to be opening out into a
> broader highway, instead has been getting narrower, more broken, cornering
> tighter and tighter until all at once, much too soon, they are under the
> final arch: brakes grab and spring terribly. It is a judgment from which
> there is no appeal.
>
> I just found out the word "grab" has a specific meaning with regard to
> brakes. What does the word "spring" mean here?
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