BTTT
After I heard the 911 call I had my doubts. Any modern car will stop if you either, smash the brake down, use the emergency brake, shift in neutral, or turn the key back until only the eletronics work.
I’d like to see a poll that asked whether the Prius incident was real or faked, and I’d like to see it broken down along ideological lines. I’ll bet ten bucks liberals would say real and conservatives faked. Everything is political these days, from the weather to your gas pedal.
Call 60 Minutes, they know how to make a run-away car.
Someone got their 15 minutes with the “can’t stop” story.
Corny, but someone felt the need to do it...
http://toyotasimulator.com/
Pressing it when going less than 5 mph will cause a "parking-brake" action.
Pressing it when going over 5 mph will cause the engine to shift into neutral - then the driver can simply apply brakes and stop in a safe location.
Failing that, holding down the power switch for three seconds will actually shut the engine down completely.
This guy was a complete hoax.
My husband said there was something funny about that guy. You’re supposed to put the car in neutral.
The whole reason the gov’t wanted a majority stake in GM, was so that they could bully the competition (i.e. possibly better cars) with impunity and drive them out of the market. After what I’ve seen, I won’t even consider buying a GM vehicle, until the gov’t sells off it’s ownership and allows the free market to be just that: free. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone on that point. I wonder if the gov’t thought about that first, or if they don’t even care. Are they going to prop up a failing car company forever, if no one buys the cars? Reminds me of Weekend at Bernie’s.
FYI
Someone should check for a deposit in his bank account (or purchases, payments), right before this.
As soon as I heard this story it made no sense to me.. actually a Prius doing 90 makes no sense but that’s another story.
“Mr. Sikes didn’t know that the Toyota Prius has a safety feature, when you press both the brake pedal and gas pedal to the floor, the engine shuts off... “
LOL!! So instead of Balloon Boy, we have Gas Pedal Guy.
CNN is incompetent. Call Dateline.
Unfortunately, not all Toyautos have this feature. But Toyauto is busy adding it to all their cars. Too bad safety wasn't a priority for them a few years ago.
And now a word from Toyota owners.
The Marxist Obama group is consciously and purposely destroying one of the most successful private companies in the world - Toyota. Toyota is an especially desirable target for this gang - who are enemies of capitalistm - since Toyota employs so many people in the U.S. and capitalist Japan and elsewhere.
By the time Obama’s group is through with Toyota, the roll of the unemployed will swell greatly. That result certainly seems to be their aim. All day long on CNN and its web equivalents - Toyota this, Toyota that. The media networks - even Fox News - are complacent about the nuclear threat to the world - practically silent. The media focus rather on first highly suspicous, then outright bogus reports of out of control cars.