tex2670

What is the basis of "only in the US?" Was there a story that said there were no incidents reported outside the US? Or is this based only on incidents that were affirmatively reported? Because, the "news" in this country is very much focused on what happens here.

SNiiP3R

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I remember this video, although it was a Sonata in the video, but scary nonetheless

spwolf

only people in US reported run-away Toyota's that cant be stopped...

RXGS

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^ that was what I was trying to say, I guess I wasn't very clear

My0gr81

This. I was in a car where the driver put the car in reverse and as they released the brake pedal, didn't anticipate that the car would reverse so suddenly and panicked. It took a while for me to figure out what was happening and by the time I put the transmission in neutral, there was enough momentum to get over a parking curb and hit another car. Btw, the car was a Lexus, an IS250, I know that it revs high during a cold weather start (kind of like an open choke,if you're old enough to remember) so it made sense to me as to what happened.

Ps: I couldn't reach the parking brake pedal from the passenger seat

ydooby

Another reason for the car makers to keep the handbrake in between the driver and the passenger eh?

Hoovey689

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Love that video. Tell it how it is

Aron9000

I still don't see how this idiot couldn't just bump the transmission from drive up to neutral. A Hyundia Elantra has the same old floor mounted gear shift, with the gate being a perfectly straight line, that has been in use since the 1950's/60's.

Personally I still like my old school cars with three pedals. If the throttle ever sticks you just push the clutch in, end of problem.

Dream36

my SC does this all the time. I just reach down and slide the floor mat back. works like a charm. if I had to stop on the hurry it will down shift with ease as well.

4TehNguyen

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really doubt it. Since the guy was a teenager you can suspect he doesnt have a lot of years of experience driving or knows how to deal with emergency situations.

GS3Tek

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I love that tutorial

bitkahuna

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when toyota had its allegations, the white house / media (little difference ) was doing anything to trash competitors of their bail-out babies (gm/chrysler).

sphy1005

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My thing is though that they had an hour to tell him what to do. How does it not shift into neutral, keys won't turn off etc... there was plenty of time to "teach" Him how to do it.

chikoo

don't forget the Audi that started it all.

dicer

According to an article it said a modern Luxury car has anywhere from 70 to 100 micro processors, and uses 100 million lines of software code. And went on to say a Mercedes s class navigation system alone uses 20 million lines of code.
All here on this thread and even some youtube videos seem to think we are still dealing with cars of the 80's and below. Sorry not the case and its going to get worse on newer cars, and is the case on many new cars now, what I'm talking about is electronic computer control of everything the driver inputs to control the car.
EVERYTHING the driver touches to make the car work is run by computer. Steering was the last hold out but even that is in the equation, with auto parking and lane hold features. Turn the engine off when the gas goes to the floor ? How when its all run by the computer, the brakes the transmission and on and on. The only hope maybe a park brake but then maybe there is an override on that and if its just a small shoe arrangement like the old LS400's and some other cars at a high speed they will fade like shoes on ice so they won't do much.
Anyway I posted this above it was on 60 minutes last night it started out as computer hacking and they showed an eye opening hack of a car being driven.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/
2-8-15 show