Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop
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From: Picasso on 13 Mar 2010 07:09 On Mar 9, 3:13 pm, "Mike Hunter" <Mikehunt2(a)lycos,com> wrote: > The video is all over the news, not good for Toyota. There is nothing > like a visual aid that counters a point one is trying to make. Wanna bet > it will end up on "Cops" or "Worlds Worst?" > > TheTibetanMonkey" <comandante.ban...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > > news:63afaded-a68d-4313-9f8e-034da9e19ad8(a)g19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com... > Another of these little MOWING MACHINES runs out of control. My take > on the issue is that Toyota sends the engineers with the highest IQ to > work at Lexus, while those with very low IQ are assigned to Toyota. I > know because I once owned a little Toyota Tercel. UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED, > you know... > > EL CAJON, Calif. A California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a > runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the > car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway, the CHP > said. > > Prius driver James Sikes called 911 about 1:30 p.m. after accelerating > to pass another vehicle on Interstate 8 near La Posta and finding that > he could not control his car, the CHP said. > > "I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car and it did something kind of > funny... it jumped and it just stuck there," the 61-year-old driver > said at a news conference. "As it was going, I was trying the > brakes...it wasn't stopping, it wasn't doing anything and it just kept > speeding up," Sikes said, adding he could smell the brakes burning he > was pressing the pedal so hard. > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_runaway_prius > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > THE WISE TIBETAN MONKEY SAYS > > "The monkey should be treated with the same respect as the lion" > > http://webspawner.com/users/BANANAREVOLUTION "Why didn't the driver simply throw the transmission into neutral as officers urged him to do?" Maybe he doesn't like authority? Rather prove a 94MPH point? good thing it wasn't a corolla... this chase would have topped 110mph
From: Picasso on 13 Mar 2010 07:11 I am still trading my ford in for a tacoma. Ever since i had a ford ranger, my taste for ford has been downhill. Recent events in my F150 have topped the cake.
From: Picasso on 13 Mar 2010 11:48
On Mar 9, 9:09 pm, Canuck57 <Canuc...(a)nospam.com> wrote: > On 09/03/2010 12:13 PM, Mike Hunter wrote: > > > The video is all over the news, not good for Toyota. There is nothing > > like a visual aid that counters a point one is trying to make. Wanna bet > > it will end up on "Cops" or "Worlds Worst?" > > Could be a setup or staged and here is why I say this. > > First off is driver negligence. You have brakes, and if they are at all > maintained two feet on the breaks with parking brake applied will stop > any vehicle I know even with the motor going. Brakes are stronger than > motors. So did the driver not only forget to use them, were they > maintained properly? > > Second issue is there is always neutral. They teach that in drivers ed > when I took it. Once in nuetral...problem is purely due care in pulling > over and turning it off. > > Third, there is the ignition. Turn it off long enough for it to stop > and then to run (but not start) and coast. Works even without brakes! > > So ask, why did it take this incopentat driver so long to do some basic > steps? > Well, I agree with what you're saying. However, if you're going to insult people, which I do very often, you should at least spell incopentat correctly... incompetent. |