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From: fiftyfourand seventymore on 23 Feb 2010 19:08
On tonight's newscast there was footage of testimony by an older woman
whose Lexus experienced the runaway car thing.
She testified that the car suddenly kicked down into passing gear and
took off, and to try and stop it she stood on the brake pedal with both
feet, moved the gear selector to all gears including reverse -- and the
car continued to go like that for something like 6 miles.
How is that even possible? In the first place, the (presumably) 4
wheel disc brakes should be able to stop the car... Could it be that at
WOT and under load like that, there would suddenly be insufficient
vacuum to run the power assist brakes or something?
And how could a car keep screaming down the freeway even with the gear
selector in reverse? That is bizarre.
The newscast mentioned that the throttle control is wireless, which I
thought was surprising but I have been out of the loop for some time.
Don't they all have that little black-box type device to divulge
details after a crash to help determine the possible cause, etc.

From: FatterDumber& Happier Moe on 23 Feb 2010 19:27
fiftyfourand seventymore wrote:
> On tonight's newscast there was footage of testimony by an older woman
> whose Lexus experienced the runaway car thing.
> She testified that the car suddenly kicked down into passing gear and
> took off, and to try and stop it she stood on the brake pedal with both
> feet, moved the gear selector to all gears including reverse -- and the
> car continued to go like that for something like 6 miles.
> How is that even possible? In the first place, the (presumably) 4
> wheel disc brakes should be able to stop the car... Could it be that at
> WOT and under load like that, there would suddenly be insufficient
> vacuum to run the power assist brakes or something?
> And how could a car keep screaming down the freeway even with the gear
> selector in reverse? That is bizarre.
> The newscast mentioned that the throttle control is wireless, which I
> thought was surprising but I have been out of the loop for some time.
> Don't they all have that little black-box type device to divulge
> details after a crash to help determine the possible cause, etc.
>

How is that even possible?
A haunted car, happens all the time. A documentary series was made
about it,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Mother_the_Car
Now what Toyota really needs is to import some of those homeless
Haitians to throw chicken bones at the faulty Toyotas and drive the evil
spirits out.
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 23 Feb 2010 23:38
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:08:06 -0800, fiftyfourand seventymore wrote:

> She testified that the car suddenly kicked down into passing gear and
> took off, and to try and stop it she stood on the brake pedal with both
> feet, moved the gear selector to all gears including reverse -- and the
> car continued to go like that for something like 6 miles.
> How is that even possible? In the first place, the (presumably) 4
> wheel disc brakes should be able to stop the car... Could it be that at
> WOT and under load like that, there would suddenly be insufficient vacuum
> to run the power assist brakes or something?


I posted this too. I think she needs to take the bus. Obviously she did
NOT have the car in neutral. She was probably using the Sport mode and
thought when it was in the center it was in neutral.

If she wants to continue to drive, I could suggest some reading material
for her...

http://cootersautomanuals.com/catalog/images/9984-91.jpg
From: jim beam on 24 Feb 2010 00:17
On 02/23/2010 04:08 PM, fiftyfourand seventymore wrote:
> On tonight's newscast there was footage of testimony by an older woman
> whose Lexus experienced the runaway car thing.
> She testified that the car suddenly kicked down into passing gear and
> took off, and to try and stop it she stood on the brake pedal with both
> feet, moved the gear selector to all gears including reverse -- and the
> car continued to go like that for something like 6 miles.
> How is that even possible? In the first place, the (presumably) 4
> wheel disc brakes should be able to stop the car... Could it be that at
> WOT and under load like that, there would suddenly be insufficient
> vacuum to run the power assist brakes or something?
> And how could a car keep screaming down the freeway even with the gear
> selector in reverse? That is bizarre.
> The newscast mentioned that the throttle control is wireless,

wireless??? wow, that's even more ignorant that a perjuring
congressional witness...


> which I
> thought was surprising but I have been out of the loop for some time.
> Don't they all have that little black-box type device to divulge
> details after a crash to help determine the possible cause, etc.
>


--
nomina rutrum rutrum
From: charlesgrozny on 24 Feb 2010 05:19
First off, why anybody even watches NBC as a credible news source is beyond
me. They were the ones that faked up the gas tank fire report in the 90's,
remember?
I expect to find more news in Pravda these days.

Second off, unless she was running down a hill such as the I-75 eastbound
east of Chattenooga, I can't see how such a scenario could occur with any
car.

Either she's lying, or she's getting paid, or both. This whole thing is
starting to take on the atmosphere of the 1936 show trials in Moscow. And
why should that suprise us? A disciple of Lenin is in the White House.

Charles Grozny


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