” use the emergency brake, shift in neutral, or turn the key back until only the eletronics work.”
This is what I want to know.!!!!
While I have driven many cars and over one million miles in my life, I have not driven, but just a few times, since I left the USA in Jan. 2005.
I never saw a car that could not be switched off (first click of the ignition switch) or one that could not be shifted into neutral while moving, or inoperable brakes.
Are the cars that much different now?
This fraud guy was told about 20 times by the 911 police operator to put it in neutral but he kept saying he could not. The whole thing is a fraud. The guy was broke and his car was behind on his payments etc etc.
Almost every thing I have read, have heard and been told is modern brakes will stop any car. This was true with the Audi 5000/100.
I drive a 2000 Cav and I think the same holds true in all cars, that you can shift from drive to netural without depressing the button on the shifter or the brake. Also I think all cars have the two clicks to start a car, one click turns on the electronics and the next starts the engine. If it wasn’t for modern locking steering wheels it should be possible to steer a car with no power at all.
I am not that familiar with the prius, but I do know it has a push button ignition in their ads.