So you blow up your engine versus having a run away car?
I haven’t been able to figure out why people haven’t done this .... or turned it off so I looked it up and found an article saying to turn the ignition to ACC so you still have power steering and brakes.
Don’t worry about the engine. Today’s computer controlled cars have rev limiters to prevent over reving and damaging the engine. If the engine has no previous mechanical faults it will survive.
I’ll take a blown engine any day over dead and dismemberment.
I’ve tested my cars, manual and automatic. I pretended I had a stuck accelerator.
Neutral was fine other than high engine rev, since controlled experiment I kept it below red line till stop.
Turning key to acc. Kept power steering and brakes. Drifted safely to a stop without high engine rev, and steering did not lock up.
No problem.
Note also that I learned to do these things before I was legally able to drive in case of a runaway car, just recently tested again because of all these stuck accelerator crashes.
My opinion, stuck accelerator cause by a manufacturers defect. Accidents and wrecks with stuck accelerator caused by operator error.
If these Death Cars of the Future have power steering and brakes when the engine isn’t running, then they don’t work the way mine does!