hypersonic said:
"maybe the brakes are only used in case of a car being vallyed?"
Like any coaster in this day and age, the track is divided into 'zones' for safety. If a car is out of its expected zone, the coaster 'sets'--stopping every car on the tracks to avoid possible collisions.
Your average coaster has a midcourse brake and a couple of brake runs before the station (not counting trim brakes) that divide the track into zones (in addition to the station and the lift hill, which are also zones). Since the Mad Mouse uses up to 8 cars, there's a lot of little 'zones' and lots of brake runs.
Not that these still can't be used as 'trim' brakes, too (preventing the trains from surpassing a preset speed).
VF's Mad Mouse used the first brake after the lift hill and the last brake before the first bunny hop as trims in 1999. In 2K, they let the first brake go--which improved the hairpin turns a great deal. I'm guessing they 'trim' the car on every Mad Mouse before the bunny hops....otherwise it would
really smack back-row riders around.
-CPlaya
