When driving I have a secret ritual. It involves a Zen like control of the brake system. The object is to stop the car while retaining the sensation of forward motion with no sound or groan from the brakes or even the slightest sensation of the tires coming to a stop.

Techniques vary with the grade of the road and rate of stopping.
The greater the grade the more difficult a perfect stop will become.
Perfection is achieved in only one in a hundred stops but when I have a transitionless stop it is a thing of beauty like truely sensing the secret ceasation of the pendulum.

Should you actually hit a police car's bumper while practicing this discipline it would be wise to not expound on the intricacies of the transitionless stop.