Posted on 07/28/2013 11:23:11 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
The bogus Toyota sudden-acceleration scandal, fed by credulous media and hungry lawyers, has now cost the Japanese automaker upwards of one billion dollars on paper in settlements, despite the lack of an actual mechanical basis for the claims.
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Yeah I’m old. I even remember when the government pretended to follow the Constitution.
Different times. Different Flag. Different Pledge of Allegiance. Whole different country...
“Rich”?? My ‘96 Ford Explorer (which we bought new) would beg to differ. She has all sorts of complaints, but we tune them out.
Every automobile has an inherent polar moment of inertia. Understeer and oversteer are directly related. The vehicle is engineered to handle best with torque from the engine at the drive wheels. Without that torque, the handling characteristics change drastically. If you don’t have the auto in gear, and need to slow down (common on the downhill), you’ll be using the brakes more than you would otherwise. That will definitely affect handling. Otherwise, I pretty much agree with you said in your second paragraph.
First car I had with the steering lock was a plymouth road runner, a real long time ago, and it took two clicks to get to the steering lock, and the tranny had to be in park. Same with the Ford Mustang, and LTD wagons I had in the ‘70s
How old are your rigs?
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My car's older than your fancy truck
...and "my" ford truck is 22 years older than yours...
Old.
>> “I even remember when the government pretended to follow the Constitution.” <<
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Wow, I didn’t know people even lived that long! I sure don’t remember Harry or Ike having much use for the constitution. (they gave all our tech to the soviets willingly)
A pox on you for making me put my reading glasses on!
Now?
Welllllll...
Pelosi Urges Congress to Uphold Constitution by Passing Gun Control
PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL.
That is all. Geez...
Of course, it isn’t necessary if there isn’t a problem in the first place.
Oh, my the horrible noise it made. But for the 2 seconds it was trying to engage the car did slow down.
Apparently they didn't have the button on the shift to prevent this back then, like in modern cars.
“Older cars, like the one I can afford, didn’t have all the interlocks that the cars you rich bastichies think everyone who isn’t scum drive, did indeed lock up the steering wheel when the ignition was turned off.”
ALL cars with steering wheel locks have had an off position before the lock position, from day one.
It isn’t that the cars you had couldn’t be turned off without locking the steering, it’s just that you never learned how to operate them.
“There is no car on the road today that will actually go into reverse before the output governor pressure falls to zero.”
NOT nonsense. Have you ever heard of a manual transmission?
Just out of curiosity, how do you turn off one of those newfangled cars with a start button?
You hold the start button in.
(Somehow this makes sense, apparently. Must be a Microsoft influence.)
That’s what I thought, and who I was going to blame...
There is really no need to have fuel going into the cylinders when coasting. With the emphasis in recent years on mileage, I don't see why any manufacturer wouldn't do that. I probably should have qualified my remark with weasel words like "recent" and "many".
My current car (manual transmission) has a real-time readout of instantaneous mileage, and it definitely goes to "infinite" when coasting in gear, and to a high, but finite number (e.g. 120 mpg) when coasting in neutral. My previous car didn't have this readout, so it would be impossible to tell without a scanner plugged into the OBD port.
>> “There is really no need to have fuel going into the cylinders when coasting” <<
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You do not understand the function of the O2 measurement channel of the engine processor. That is what controls whether the injectors fire or not, not if the trans is in neutral, or if the car is coasting.
Your ‘readout’ is nothing but a gimick.
You are truly a child.
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