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To: lowbridge
I have a new tractor, a Case IH 50A. It has a computer and an electric foot and hand throttle. Every now and again it will suddenly go to idle and stay there. I have to shut it down and restart it then it goes again until the next time.

We all know that even the best computers never do get a "glitch" and just decide to do nothing or worse. Never happens does it? Of course it does. Who thinks self-driving anything will ever do any better? Not me. Not trusting them

25 posted on 10/05/2023 10:48:15 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Sequoyah101

I have a new tractor, a Case IH 50A. It has a computer and an electric foot and hand throttle. Every now and again it will suddenly go to idle and stay there. I have to shut it down and restart it then it goes again until the next time.
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A couple of decades ago, I picked up rental car... unless I’m mistaken, it was a Olds Intrigue. Anyway, about a mile from the rental outlet, I was turning left at a set of lights. Right in the middle of the intersection, it completely conked out. Had to put it in park but it did restart and I continued on. I of course thought that was weird and so tried it again... sure enough, the next left turn it did again. At this point, I took it to an empty parking lot and unless I basically kept my foot almost right off the gas, it would conk out... and the more I tried to accelerate while turning left, the more quickly it would conk. It behaved completely normal when going straight or turning right.

Needless to say, the car was taken right back but imagine trying to explain that as the reason for returning it. To this day, I don’t think I’ve heard of someone else experiencing that.


29 posted on 10/05/2023 1:03:11 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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