Car Emergency Procedures

[tdog 0]

So say you were driving your toyota down a highway after knowing there was a recall...

Say your car sped up...

Two options:

Scenario A
1) You reach down and try to pull the accelerator up.
2) You call 911 while your car is going 90 MPH. They dispatch a cop. After 20 minutes he gets to you.
3) You hit the brakes lightly, but hold them until they burn up. Then the cop tells you to put on both your ebrake and regular brake at full...
4) The cop pulls up to you and eventually gets in front of you and slows you down with his bumper.


Scenario B
1) You put your car in neutral, turn on your hazards, and pull over.
2) When you forget to do that, when you call 911, they suggest it immediately. You go, "oh ya, that makes sense" and do it.


Which one do you think happened in real life?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-toyota-chp9-2010mar09,0,3699926.story?track=rss



(P.S. If you own a toyota, like I do... Before each car ride, touch all three handles in the order you would use them... 1st, the brake. 2nd, the gear shifter, 3rd the key once you stop. Actually, no matter what kind of car you own, they can malfunction, so plan ahead.)

[airdvr 210]

I'm wondering now if people aren't angling for a piece of the lawsuit pie.

Either way I'm seein' the reasle value on that Prius going to a negative number.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[billeisele 130]

saw the detail report on the news this AM, it will be an interesting case to follow

one other driver "claimed" that shifting to neutral didn't work and that the car would not turn off

if Toyota allowed an independent evaluator to have a copy of their software to read the blackbox that would had a huge amount of credibility to their claim

as long as they have their man doing the investigation it will be tainted

Give one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws.

[SSHusky 0]

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as long as they have their man doing the investigation it will be tainted

yea and if they have someone outside of Toyota it won't be tainted?
hmm... if I mess with the electronics, then the accelerator sticks... it must have been that all along... hmm... tainted?

[ryoder 1,590]

What happened when I was driving the old man's Buick with a 455cid 4-barrel V8 and the throttle stuck wide open,
laying down two patches of burning rubber as I was leaving a gas station:

I turned off the key.

I was only 17, and no one had educated me that I was supposed to make a big drama out of it.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[regulator 0]

Yeah I now know why I got a Honda (not knocking toyota) with a 6 speed manual transmission. If my pedal gets stuck (never has) I KNOW i can shift into neutral and simply get to the side of the road. Automatic transmissions are for lazy people! :)

[SSHusky 0]

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I was only 17, and no one had educated me that I was supposed to make a big drama out of it.

Yes, but were you aware of how much money you could have made off of a lawsuit?

[shropshire 0]

Remember... the world is mostly populated by idiots and lawyers

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Andy0689 0]

"A CHP patrol officer caught up to the Prius about 20 minutes later and used a loudspeaker to tell the driver..."

Really? A Prius? I didn't think they'd go 90 mph. At least when he finally stopped his hybrid battery was fully charged.

Andy
I'll believe it when I see it on YouTube!

[billvon 3,120]

>Either way I'm seein' the reasle value on that Prius going to a negative number.

Excellent. Means a better deal for me.

[anthonyfellows 0]

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So say you were driving your toyota down a highway after knowing there was a recall...

Say your car sped up...

Two options:

Scenario A
1) You reach down and try to pull the accelerator up.
2) You call 911 while your car is going 90 MPH. They dispatch a cop. After 20 minutes he gets to you.
3) You hit the brakes lightly, but hold them until they burn up. Then the cop tells you to put on both your ebrake and regular brake at full...
4) The cop pulls up to you and eventually gets in front of you and slows you down with his bumper.


Scenario B
1) You put your car in neutral, turn on your hazards, and pull over.
2) When you forget to do that, when you call 911, they suggest it immediately. You go, "oh ya, that makes sense" and do it.


Which one do you think happened in real life?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-toyota-chp9-2010mar09,0,3699926.story?track=rss



(P.S. If you own a toyota, like I do... Before each car ride, touch all three handles in the order you would use them... 1st, the brake. 2nd, the gear shifter, 3rd the key once you stop. Actually, no matter what kind of car you own, they can malfunction, so plan ahead.)

Providing there is no traffic around you ... Turn the wheel all the way to one side, pull the emergency brake, and hope for a cool 180 on the spot like in Fast and the Furious.

I got my letter from Toyota in the mail today after being out of town for several days. Don't drive next to me, I'm not having my car towed to the dealership.

I don't think either scenario that you've provided makes sense. If you're quick enough to call 911 during either, you're still too much of an idiot to be driving.

Serious relationships turn into work after a few weeks and I already got a fucking job :)
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