People are stupid.
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Do these people not know about that stick next to their leg that allows the user to disconnect the engine from the wheels? Or what about the magic key that is on the side of the steering column that, if moved back just one click, can turn off the engine? |
I was thinking the same thing. Unbelievable. Don't get me wrong, the death of a family is a tragedy, but you have got to think that one of the 4 people in the car had bound to find one of the ways to slow down.
1. Get the stupid floor mat off the gas pedal. 2. Turn the key off. If this was a late-model Lexus, it may have had a keyless ignition; I am not sure if they can be turned off at speed. 3. Shift into neutral. Tearing up something on the car is far less costly than killing everyone inside. |
This all reminds me of the event that a woman that was driving an SUV for ten minutes unable to stop because the accelerator was stuck. She had time to call 911 and nobody ever thought of telling her to shut the vehicle off or scrub off speed by going into the ditch.
She ended up ramming into someone on a motorcycle, the rear passenger on the bike died and the driver of the bike was injured. |
wait you mean we need to think while we drive!
thats like multi-tasking, right? |
A post I made on another forum...
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there was a jack*** of the year award recently in regard to litigation...
a woman alone, driving an RV, put the vehicle on cruise control. she then proceeded to the rear to make a sandwich. the vehicle naturally left the road and crashed. here's the kicker...she sued the RV manufacturer AND WON!!!(can't remember the details in terms of grounds, damages, and such) |
well, not much to say or add there but...even our legislation is retarded and i know that's no epiphany. so, why and how can a state enforce motorists to wear seat belts, but not enforce cyclists to wear helmets?!
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When I worked for the Gov't I had the accelerator stick on me while driving a Gov't vehicle. The vehicle was a 1993 Chevrolet Step Van, the largest size they made (6 ton gross weight if I remember correctly). I had floored the truck to go up a steep hill, and when I got to the top, the truck kept accelerating. I tried pulling up on the pedal with my toe. Braking was not effective, so I shifted into Neutral, shut off the key, and then had the task of stopping that truck without power steering or power brakes. I did it without wrecking.
I called my office, and told them that my throttle cable was stuck, and requested a tow truck. You know what I was told? Drive it back to the office "real careful". I guess my point is that in the span of about 30 seconds I had 1. Determined I had a problem. 2. Tried several things that were mentioned earlier in this thread. 3. Safely stopped a 6 ton truck from a speed of about 50 or 60 MPH. I didn't need a cell phone to do any of that. I realize that not everyone has the strength to steer & brake a 6 ton truck without power assist, but certainly even my mother could have stopped a Lexus within 10 minutes without any power assist. Heck. If she had 10 minutes just shutting the car off, it would have rolled to a stop all by itself without any help from the brakes. |
Another thing I just remembered that I've seen on one of those 911 highway patrol TV shows. Motorist calls 911, accelerator stuck, no brakes. Dispatcher radioes a patrol car pull ahead of the car, and then the car slowed down until the bunpers met. At that time the caller was told to shift into Neutral, and the police car stopped both vehicles.
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