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I was kidnapped by my runaway electric car: Terrified motorist, 53, reveals his new £30,000 MG ZS EV 'began driving itself' after suffering 'catastrophic malfunction' - forcing him to dial 999 and crash it into a police van to get it to stop
Daily Mail ^
| October 4, 2023
| Rory Tingle
Posted on 10/05/2023 9:35:11 AM PDT by lowbridge
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posted on
10/05/2023 9:35:11 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
And the programmer Ho Lee Phuck was laughing 😆 while watching his remote screen.
(Well, somebody has to say it.) Apologies to the offended.
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posted on
10/05/2023 9:39:56 AM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
To: lowbridge
“Unable to use the brakes, the Glaswegian - who runs his own social enterprise”
Social Enterprise? I suspect that when the investigations are over, there will be a lot more to this story.
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posted on
10/05/2023 9:42:11 AM PDT
by
BobL
(Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
To: lowbridge
I wonder if MG engineers have found a way to ensure their EVs are still capable of dripping motor oil in the driveway.
To: lowbridge
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posted on
10/05/2023 9:45:56 AM PDT
by
Bounced2X
(Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
To: lowbridge
Safe and effective, any problems are virtually non-existent. Get your electric vaccination today! Booster chargers available everywhere!
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posted on
10/05/2023 9:48:50 AM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself. 111 is the key.)
To: lowbridge
Don't those things have a E-Stop button somewhere?
OSHA would require one if it were any sort of industrial machinery.
To: lowbridge
As an engineer I call BS on this story.
I’ll take bets too... any takers? I would put good money on it that there is a physical brake that overrides the electronic brakes.
Wait... you’ll see.
Remember when there was a rash of lawsuits against one carmaker when a frantic motorist claimed he could not brake and they had to pull a cop car in front of him to slow it down and stop it? It turned out the electronic black box showed he was holding the gas pedal down and braking at the same time. A few other cases popped up and were dropped.
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posted on
10/05/2023 9:57:55 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
To: lowbridge
I liked the version with the young Sandra Bullock more.
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:01:00 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Joe 6-pack
It’s in the realism package
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:06:28 AM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: lowbridge
Why didn’t he put the car in neutral?
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:08:17 AM PDT
by
gitmo
To: lowbridge
Well, at least it wasn’t chasing him while on fire like a Tesla could.
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:08:43 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: drSteve78
I thought it was Bing Dang Ow.
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:09:18 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Dr. Sivana
Hitting a can to stop sounds like something Jim Rockford would do.
Destroyed enough Firebirds.
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:10:27 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
To: dfwgator
Your comment is more ‘appropriate’.
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:12:43 AM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
To: lowbridge
“I didn’t crash into you officer, the car did. it’s got a mind of it’s own. Yeah that’s the ticket, the car did it, not me”
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:14:19 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: lowbridge
"£30,000 MG ZS EV" Which model MG was it? B, C...or the Midget? Personally, I think they should've stopped after running out of the leftover Healey 6-cylinders they were dropping in the C's. Continuing the MG as an EV is just blasphemous..
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:15:40 AM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: lowbridge
I had my 1974 454 Chev pickup lock the carb butterfly wide open.
It took both feet on the brake to slow it enough to turn the car off.
Poking screwdriver into the carb got it back to normal.
Scary!
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:17:04 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: Joe 6-pack
Sound like Lucas electronics are still with them.
LOL
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:18:05 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: Zathras
It took both feet on the brake to slow it enough to turn the car off.Heard of neutral?
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posted on
10/05/2023 10:18:29 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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