Driver Trapped in Speeding Car
What an odd story.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/frank-lecerf-renault-car-acceleration-pedal-stuck-at-125mph-france-belgium-134908648.html#sqdMTvz
It's this bit that makes me think, 'eh?'
He said he had experienced a similar problem on two previous occasions but his car had been checked and no fault was found.
It's happened twice before? You loon!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/frank-lecerf-renault-car-acceleration-pedal-stuck-at-125mph-france-belgium-134908648.html#sqdMTvz
It's this bit that makes me think, 'eh?'
He said he had experienced a similar problem on two previous occasions but his car had been checked and no fault was found.
It's happened twice before? You loon!
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It's dangerous to use your mobile while you're driving..! You loon..!
It was specially adapted disabled controls so there might not even be any pedals. Also it's a Renault so if the computer crashes or decides it fancies a day out in Belgium you just have to go along for the ride.
It's stories like this that make me glad the most complex electronics on my car is the auto-reverse cassette deck...
:smile:
wanna tell the euro & eastern euro drivers on the m1 texting AND tailgating in torrential rain ? speaking of the M1 , this little pr*** needs banning
with brakes though , I've heard of a few that fail.. as they aren't all the same sort.someone at work had a van's brakes fail, I'll show the exact location. it was dangerous
http://goo.gl/maps/Tnwhd
he was where the white van was, so had to to go left or right.. notice the tw** in the BMW across the clear way.. why am I not surprised ? ;-)
I guess gearing down the engine is the only way along with kerbing the wheel ? not sure how it works the automatics, but some vans I know you can switch to manual.. to get higher revs.
the renault clio with the failing bonnet catch would be a scary one also. http://www.retro-renault.com/forums/geek/gars/images/2/4/7/7/DSCF3605.jpg
I do remember an engine losing power in my car on the motorway in the middle lane.. that was quite hair raising.
What's bad about this story is that they guy is a known epileptic. What is an epileptic doing driving? I used to be epileptic and during that time and for several years afterwards I was not allowed to drive and for good reason.
And to top it off
Erm..put in neutral/park and take the ignition key out...then hit the brakes.
Darwinism in action...
That only works if the car has an ignition key
Secondly cutting power either by removing a key or pulling out a fuse could be deadly if that automatically activates a steering lock etc.
That only works if you have feet - we don't know the nature of the modifications to the cars controls.
A lot of modern cars no longer have a handbrake cable so you can't even apply that if the computer doesn't feel like it.
that's another defect I saw, the mini's where the power steering failed.
You don't even have to do that - in any road legal car the brakes will overpower the engine. They even demonstrated this in a 550+hp supercar by flooring the gas, and at 100mph, braking to a halt with the gas still floored.
Most of these acceleration issues (I'm not saying this is the case with the Renault incident, given it was a modified car and the modifications may have been bad) are by people hitting the gas while convinced their foot is on the brake pedal. We had someone drive their car through an exterior wall at work because they hit the gas instead of the brake, and instead of thinking, just mashed the pedal down harder when the vehicle accelerated.
One thing that surprises me is the new software controlled cars (with start stop buttons etc) do not have a physical kill switch, I'm surprised it isn't required by regulations. Every motorcycle has one, they aren't rocket science - just a simple switch just like a bike kill switch within easy reach of the steering wheel, which simply disables the ignition by physically switching off the low voltage supply to the coil(s). I'm also surprised that software "hand brakes" are allowed.
You're assuming of course that they are allowed. Just because no-one's there at the port stopping them from unloading the cars doesn't mean that they actually comply with the regulations required to use them in this country.
I don't know if they've got around to changing the regulations, but last time I looked it up cars with LED brake lights weren't legal in the UK. Sadly The regulations just get changed to match what the rest of the world is doing otherwise no-one would be able to buy a new car.
I'd be more worried about them blue light up washer jets chavs have.
That's an after market addition though like strip lights or "show plates"...