Posted on 10/05/2023 9:35:11 AM PDT by lowbridge
A terrified electric car driver has revealed he was kidnapped by his runaway £30,000 MG ZS EV after the vehicle suffered a 'catastrophic malfunction' in a bizarre case which forced him to dodge red lights and roundabouts before calling police to ram it into their van.
Brian Morrison, 53, claims he was heading home from work at around 10pm on Sunday when his new Chinese-made fully electric car began driving itself at 30mph.
Unable to use the brakes, the Glaswegian - who runs his own social enterprise - called police who stopped the vehicle by allowing it to slowly crash into their van.
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Mr Morrison said: 'I realised something was wrong when I was coming up to a roundabout and went to slow down but it failed to do so. Then I heard a loud grinding noise that sounded like brake pads. Because it was such a new car I knew it couldn't be a problem with them.
'I managed to get around the roundabout going at about 30mph, and then had a long road ahead of me, so I assumed it would stop without me accelerating but it didn't.
'I have mobility issues, so I couldn't even jump out - I was completely trapped inside the car going at 30mph.
'It might not sound like it is very fast, but when you have no control over the speed and you're completely stuck inside it's terrifying.'
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'The car was just running away on its own, there was nothing I could do,' he said.
'When I dialled 999, they sent police to help and put some engineers on the line to try and solve the problem, and they were asking if it was a self-driving car.
'It was the first time that the call handlers had experienced the issue
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And the programmer Ho Lee Phuck was laughing 😆 while watching his remote screen.
(Well, somebody has to say it.) Apologies to the offended.
“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.
I wonder if MG engineers have found a way to ensure their EVs are still capable of dripping motor oil in the driveway.
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OSHA would require one if it were any sort of industrial machinery.
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.
It’s in the realism package
Why didn’t he put the car in neutral?
Well, at least it wasn’t chasing him while on fire like a Tesla could.
I thought it was Bing Dang Ow.
Hitting a can to stop sounds like something Jim Rockford would do.
Destroyed enough Firebirds.
Your comment is more ‘appropriate’.
“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”
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..
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!
Sound like Lucas electronics are still with them.
LOL
Heard of neutral?
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