While travelling on a rickshaw, you might have experienced that if the seat cover is very smooth, you tend to slip when brakes are applied suddenly. Explain.

If the seat cover is very smooth, we tend to slip when brakes are applied suddenly because:

⇒ As we know that the friction decreases when the surface is smooth.

⇒ The seat cover of a rickshaw is smooth, this means the friction between the body and the seat is lesser.

⇒ Thus, when the brakes are applied suddenly, we tend to slip due to decreased friction.