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{{quote|''If I am escaping in a large truck and the hero is pursuing me in a small Italian sports car, I will not wait for the hero to pull up along side of me and try to force him off the road as he attempts to climb aboard. Instead I will slam on the brakes when he's directly behind me. (A rudimentary knowledge of physics can prove quite useful.)''
When you have a scene in the middle of a [[Chase Scene|heated chase]] where one character is trying to escape another, and their pursuer's car is just feet behind them, there's a tried-and-true tactic that sits near the top of the list of chase-breaking manuevers: the party (or parties) being pursued suddenly slams on the brakes, causing the pursuer to run into him. This is called a '''"Ram by Braking."''' Ideally this is done so that the pursuer has little to no time to change their course; the purpose of the resulting crash is to give whoever's being pursued time to escape, as being rear-ended isn't nearly as hazardous to their momentum as ramming into the back of the car is to the pursuer.
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[[Do Not Attempt|Don't try this]] if your vehicle is [[Every Car Is a Pinto|an exploding Pinto]].
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* In ''[[Case Closed]]'', a variant is used to disable a car full of bad guys holding a man hostage: they box him in, and then the car in the front slams on the breaks, causing the bad guys inside to lose their grip on the hostage and allowing the police to move in and arrest them all without causing too much harm on said hostage.
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* ''[[Tintin]]'':
** Tintin is on a motorcycle and chasing a carful of baddies. The baddies slam on the brakes, Tintin gets knocked off his bike, baddies zoom off.
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