Dafuq? Woman's accelerator gets stuck

[Hoober]

http://fox4kc.com/2012/08/24/woman-goes-on-wild-ride-after-cars-accelerator-gets-stuck/

Umm, turn the car off? I don't get it.

 

[lxskllr]

Woman's accelerator gets stuck

;^)

 

[Squisher]

N, put it in N


You know if that median was just a long muddy ditch without obstructions it might have been best to let mother nature slow the car down.

 

[amdhunter]

Bullshit. She probably was going to be stopped for speeding and did this as a ruse to get out of the ticket.

 

[MontyAC]

Send her to driving school.

 

[drebo]

Turning off the car is bad. You lose power stearing.

In any modern car, though, the breaks will overpower the accelerator. There's no excuse if she wasn't pushing the breaks. Ticket + driving school should be in her future.

 

[darkxshade]

bullshit... a Kia can't go 120mph

 

[Gibsons]

Does this ever happen to men?

 

[lxskllr]

Turning off the car is bad. You lose power stearing.

You don't need power steering at anything over 5mph, and especially not at 100mph+.

 

[darkxshade]

Does this ever happen to men?

That's not a fair comparison. Men inherently has an advantage with driving... it's the ability to take a foot off the gas.

 

[highland145]

You don't need power steering at anything over 5mph, and especially not at 100mph+.

EPAS. Could be a problem. No hydraulics in the wife's RAV4 so you have to fight the motor/gears if it's out.

 

[Brovane]

She was on the phone with a 911 operator for most of the time and the Operator was giving her different techniques to get the car to slow down. I assume they did try shifting into neutral etc.

 

[alkemyst]

Umm, turn the car off? I don't get it.

I would not recommend most driving 60+mph and turning your car off esp if you lock the steering wheel.

put in neutral and get the car stopped, then cut power.

 

[highland145]

I don't see what's so special about her driving ability. She was only on her cell. Wasn't like she was trying to put on eye liner, eat a bagel and smoke a cig too.



Drive by wire, FTW.

 

[Nintendesert]

Looking at the video the dumb woman couldn't even put the car into park, it kept rolling multiple times while she tried to get out. The State Trooper had to finally get into the vehicle to stop it.

This is probably a case of a real dumbass that doesn't know how to operate her vehicle and never tried to put it into Neutral.

 

[waggy]

a news article said she tried to move it to N and turn it off. neither would work.

finally she was able to pull up on the peddle and use the brake. even after she got out the car started to take off again. cops were able to stop it long enough to disconnect the battery.

 

[lxskllr]

a news article said she tried to move it to N and turn it off. neither would work.

Worst car in the world. Simultaneous failure of throttle linkage, transmission linkage, and ignition switch. Or was it ineptitude? I wonder which is more plausible?

 

[mmntech]

a news article said she tried to move it to N and turn it off. neither would work.

finally she was able to pull up on the peddle and use the brake. even after she got out the car started to take off again. cops were able to stop it long enough to disconnect the battery.

That sounds suspicious. The odds of the shifter failing, the starter button failing, and the accelerator sticking are pretty slim. I've driven a LOT of Sorrentos from that model year. Never had a problem.

 

[Evadman]

finally she was able to pull up on the peddle and use the brake. even after she got out the car started to take off again. cops were able to stop it long enough to disconnect the battery.

A car will run just fine with a disconnected battery.

 

[jagec]

A car will run just fine with a disconnected battery.

Maybe she had this problem because she had converted it to be 100% electric. Because of that, the OEM transmission and ignition might have not been connected anymore, which would leave us with a single point of failure. Much more plausible.

 

[MontyAC]

I still say she thought it was the brake.

 

[OutHouse]

Kamran Sarwar from A Best Automotive says that if you’re ever in this situation, it’s important to stay calm – and whatever you do, do not try to jam your car into “Park,” which would lock up your steering wheel and cause you to lose control.

wtf????

umm thats turning off the ignition you dumbass. PLUS throwing into park will just ratchet.

 

[CZroe]

Turning off the car is bad. You lose power stearing.

In any modern car, though, the breaks will overpower the accelerator. There's no excuse if she wasn't pushing the breaks. Ticket + driving school should be in her future.

Wow. "Stearing?" "Breaks?" I hope you facepalm for that.

Anyway, why the eff would you need to steer a stopped car? Another thing: the wheel will not lock if you turn the key back to the run position. The engine will only restart if you did not put it in neutral. Next: There's a reason steering wheels do not lock at any reasonable driving-forward-at-speed steering angle.

 

[rh71]

Christ people she was on the phone with 911 and they helped her try different things. If she can talk and drive like that at the same time, with 1 hand, I'm pretty sure she wasn't panicing and not know what a brake vs. accelerator was. It's not operator error.

I do want to know why putting it in neutral didn't work though.

BTW, don't people have speakerphone on their cell? Why do people still talk with the phone on their ears while in the car???

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Turning off the car is bad. You lose power stearing.

So what? You lose POWER steering, you don't loose the steering itself. At highway speeds going in essentially a straight line power steering is pretty much meaningless, it provides no benefit whatsoever.

Turn off the ignition you stupid broad.