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Pussies…learn to drive your car!

Prius – Working hard to save the planet in more than one way.

It’s hard to separate fact from fiction since the chief antagonist to Toyota is Obama’s gummint motas, but if these things are true, it simply shows that green is not clean, it’s dangerous.
I would never buy a car with a large battery in it. I would never buy a car that has been compromised for Obama’s green Caesar’s sake.
Time to recall all “green” cars and get back to reality.

I don’t know how many weak, pussified liberals don’t know anything about driving like real men learned from their “real men” dads. PUT YOUR CARS INTO NEUTRAL BEFORE YOU KILL SOMEONE YOU LAME, PATHETIC, PUSSIFIED LIBERALS!!!!

It will warm my heart the day it happens to Ralph Nader.

I thought evil SUVs were the only cars with minds of their own. Is Prius Latin for Pussy?

This moron never even tried to put it in neutral. When the 911 operator asked him if he could, he responded he was trying to keep control of the car. What a retard!

TURN THE STUPID THING OFF WITH THE KEY, A$$HAT!

Is this fraud? I asked my wife what she would do if the gas peddle stuck while driving. She said put the car in neutral, or turn off the ignition, and slowly move over to the side of the road. Either this guy was paid off to act out this incident, or he is an idiot and shouldn’t have a drivers license.

how does the floor mat speed up the car?
I could understand if it curls up under the brake,
but couldnt a driver simpley scoot the mat back with their foot?

As much as I like Toyota,
and still want to buy a Scion Tc aka Toyata Camery-

This whole “loose floor-mat” thing seems fishy.

Im willing to bet that the problem is electronic.
the day of hard line brakes are long gone,
truth be told, the guy “standing on the brakes” made no diffrence with modern anti-lock tech.

I may be proven wrong, but my guess is the “driver” has about as much credibility as the “balloon boy” dad….or maybe he truly is just a clueless moron. (same difference).

Hey, get over it – remember you stupid Lib, you’re saving the Earth.

DTOM!
http://RightWingStuff.com

Standing on the brakes and still going 90 mph? Can’t shut it off? Can’t put it in neutral?

He tells the 911 operator he can’t put it in neutral because he’s trying to control the car?

I think this guy’s IQ is about the same as his Prius’s MPG (highway).

Why, oh why did Toyotanobrakes pull out of Formula 1 ?
McLaren and Ferrari would have been drooling if they could have perfected this sort of acceleration into oblivion without a $2oo million penalty.
I must admit that the test driver seemed a little old, perhaps not up for the job and didn’t understand that re-fuelling isn’t allowed this year.
None the less i’m sure he’ll look back on this in a chequered flag sort of way.
Happy Brace !

Wow. I didn’t think a hybrid could go that fast. If they can fix the brake problem, I might get one.

I am shocked…………a prius can go 90 MPH !!!!!!

rename it the Darwin Car , if the driver is this stupid, maybe they need to get out of the gene pool

I don’t buy this, folks. Sorry, it’s just too maddog convenient. It’s too reminiscent of the hoaxes that swept the country in 1993 when someone “found” a hypodermic needle in a Pepsi can. Mark my words, folks — when this is all sorted out, the driver is going to be sounding like a slightly more sane Richard Heene.

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I think that if you can’t drive a stick, you shouldn’t be driving. The automatic transmission has allowed more unqualified drivers onto the road than any other invention since the automobile itself. People no longer understand the even the basics of how a car works, no less any of the dynamics. As if that’s not bad enough, many young or ignorant people are constantly distracted with items such as their cell phones, text messages, the stereo, tvs… i’ve seen women applying makeup, I’ve seen newspapers being read. Driving is a dangerous task, not to be taken lightly. Too bad more people don’t take it seriously.

Thanks to worthless reporters we are not getting the story, and anything close to a factual story.

They guy says he can’t put it in neutral, talk on the phone, and shift at the same time. So rather then putting the phone down, he’ll just take a death ride and talk on the phone. I can see that people are that stupid.

Another story says neutral didn’t work, and turning the key off didn’t work either — or that was a lie made up by a reporter. Once again, we have to do the reporting since the media can’t get it straight.

I don’t have “All Data” for this car. Someone who reads this does. Can someone who can read a schematic and an assembly drawing tell me if the shift is “fly by wire”, of if there’s a mechanical link.

If you give me a remote login on your machine, I can do it. I just don’t have a reason to purchase All Data for Imports.

What about the brakes? Mechanical actuator and vacuum like “normal cars” with power brakes, or all fly by wire too?

Also, what about the key? Is it a proximity key that you insert, but you do not turn? (ie, the key just enables the start button on the dash, but when you remove the key, it shuts the car off) of is it a physical rotating switch, and what is it connected to? Direct to the computer? Ground anything? Relay in the middle? Power FETS in a current mirror arrangement perhaps? Something else?

If it is all “fly by wire” and the computer is insane (think computer blue screen, but your network card is still alive) I can see how any input may not work including a brake signal. In that case, you’d have the pull the fuses to get a reaction.

If it’s not all “fly by wire” — you got pilot error on an electrical defect.

It would be nice to know what the case is here but MSM isn’t up to the task.

“Bush’s fault!”

cry the lie-barrels.

I think we are going to find out this is all fabricated. This is a way for GM to improve its failing sales. I wouldn’t be suprised if the Left-wing media is involved, maybe even the California Highway Patrol. No one is stupid enough to take a death ride instead of simply turning off the engine or putting the car in neutral. This whole thing is W A Y to fishy. Remember the guy out there in Cali that crashed and killed his whole family after his gas pedal stuck? Did he really? I mean are we really sure it happened at all? I’m not really a conspiracy theory guy, but recently I have been seeing things on TV and reading things in newspapers and hearing things on the radio that just do not make any sense to me at all.

I read another article that had interviewed the driver, and he said that he was afraid to put the car into neutral because he was afraid he it might have gotten stuck into reverse and he would not have been able to steer it. He was also afraid to turn off the engine going over ninety miles an hour because he was not sure if he would have lost power steering. He is 64 yrs old and was driving at this speed dodging cars and I could fully understand his panic. He said at one point he reached down and pulled up on the accelerator and said it was not depressed so the car was accelerating on it’s own without any floormat interference whatsoever.

I drive a Lexus and I agree that I would have put the car into neutral first, then I would have tried to turn it off, but after reading that, I don’t know if the steering would have locked up. No one has clarified that issue. It seems to me that there are REAL problems with Toyotas right now. The driver had over 50 thousand miles on it, and it had recently been serviced, so he certainly had no warning. A lot of people have been killed, and Toyota needs to clearly state what emergency proceedures should be used on EACH TYPE of vehicle that might have this happen to it.

Yet again. Lexus….All data. Heard those are suspect too.

Why can’t a mechanic tell us how this is hooked up. Why can’t fox (we don’t expect MSM to do it) go to the dealership and ask a mechanic, and cover his job if he gets fired for talking about it. Shouldn’t cost so much. These guys do not have NDA’s like I do.

Back in the days of $150 cars, there was a carb. 2 springs made the gas pedal not go to the floor. sometimes, on a rusted out car, both of them would break. $3 fix. Yep, runaway. We had no problem with neutral or key off. I had one runaway in my life. bummer for 2 seconds. I was lucky, but quick on the key. It didn’t have “power steering” so I didn’t notice control loss, power breaks get a little tough after you hit them once and loose the vacuum, but you can still “pounce them” and even lock up all four paws.

We even towed dead cars on short leashes (tow strap connected to your buddies car). No power brakes, no power steering, dead car not running at all. It’s not a difficult task, but both folks need to know how to drive.

Now they say “jam the brakes”. Great, but you cause a pile up on the freeway cause you are stupid. Or — breaks are “fly by wire” and the input does not work — AT ALL!!! Neither does the Key!!!! maybe OFF is “fly by wire too”. who knows. MSM isn’t doing research.

It would really be nice if someone could post the details of how it works. If the key can kill the ignition and the electric propulsion without the computer, that’s good. If it can’t, that’s a critical design flaw and all of them should be benched from the road.

They do it with airplanes.

–pig

This was really bugging me because so many posters are wrong about what to do if you have a sudden acceleration emergency so I looked it up.

First off: DO NOT TURN THE CAR ENGINE OFF. DOING SO WILL MOST LIKELY RESULT IN THE LOSS OF POWER STEERING MAKING IT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO STEER.

Secondly: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ENGAGE YOUR EMERGENCY BRAKE, DOING SO AT THIS SPEED WILL RESULT IN FLIPPING YOUR VEHICLE OVER.

What you should do:

SHIFT CAR INTO NEUTRAL AND KEEP PRESSURE ON THE BRAKE. DO NOT ‘PUMP THE BRAKES’ SINCE THIS WILL ONLY RESULT IN LOSS OF BRAKE PRESSURE. ONLY WHEN THE CAR COMES TO A STOP SHOULD THE ENGINE BE TURNED OFF.

I hope that no one reading this tread ever has to use this information, but I feel better having posted it just to clear things up.

Sorry to keep adding to this thread, but I read another interesting bit that might explain why the ‘key off’ button did not work for this individual. It is designed NOT to work while the car engine is on. In order to shut the car off while the engine is still on, the driver must HOLD THE BUTTON DOWN FOR THREE SECONDS or else it will not work. If you push it, push it again- ect. it will never shut off. You have to depress the button down all the way for three seconds.

Also, if you experience sudden unwanted acceleration, do not wait until the car reaches speeds in the double digits before you react, shift into neutral immediately and keep constant pressure on the brake. -sorry for the overkill on info.

This guy must be from Kalifornia…he let an inadament object out smart him.

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