Another Stuck Pedal Case

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Turning off the engine is a bad idea. You will lose power steering and vac assist for the brakes.
True, it was what was tought back then....


..and believe it or not there was a time there was not power brakes,nor power steering. :D2

True, but it is much harder to steer a car that has non-functional PS than one that never had it.
Try it with oversize tires to. Its a work out. :(
ha yeah try it with 38's, last year on spring break one of my drunk friends through my truck into R while going about 65. it made a loud pop then everything shut down. everyone in the truck was about ready to hit him but then the truck started back up and ran fine.
 

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Turning off the engine is a bad idea. You will lose power steering and vac assist for the brakes.
True, it was what was tought back then....


..and believe it or not there was a time there was not power brakes,nor power steering. :D2

True, but it is much harder to steer a car that has non-functional PS than one that never had it.
Try it with oversize tires to. Its a work out. :(
ha yeah try it with 38's, last year on spring break one of my drunk friends through my truck into R while going about 65. it made a loud pop then everything shut down. everyone in the truck was about ready to hit him but then the truck started back up and ran fine.

Try it on a water truck with 40 inch tires and 2000 gallons of water on back...
 

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Turning off the engine is a bad idea. You will lose power steering and vac assist for the brakes.
True, it was what was tought back then....


..and believe it or not there was a time there was not power brakes,nor power steering. :D2

True, but it is much harder to steer a car that has non-functional PS than one that never had it.
Try it with oversize tires to. Its a work out. :(
ha yeah try it with 38's, last year on spring break one of my drunk friends through my truck into R while going about 65. it made a loud pop then everything shut down. everyone in the truck was about ready to hit him but then the truck started back up and ran fine.

Try it on a water truck with 40 inch tires and 2000 gallons of water on back...
haha bump that
 

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Good frikking greif... we have a sea of totally braindead idiots driving around...

We're talking about a Prius owner. Not surprising that he went 30 miles with the car stuck at 90mph. He was too busy looking down his nose at all the gas guzzlers to realize his peddle was stuck.

All these cases are showing that there must be some really stupid people that bought Toyota's. :dunno:
 

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We can all speculate all we want, but until we are in the same situation ourselves in a Panic Emergency situation we really don't know how we'd react. This most recent guy seemed to be lucky and was on an interstate where he had plenty of time make decisions and give thought to his situation. I don't see any hero's in this situation for stopping the car, I see a lucky old man though. Had he been like my mother, and you nail the gas pedal to the floor everytime you take off from a street light, and it was in a surface street situation, I am sure the outcome would have been much differant as he would not have had the time and space to gain some composure and think about what he was doing. Everyone acts and reacts differantly in an adrenalin rush situation. Just like cops, there are some that are awesome at hitting a target at the range, and they all qualify, or they would not be able to be cops, but its been proven over and over, in real street crime fighting adrenalin rush situations, cops have over a 90% miss rate and they have even been trained how to handle those situations. Just saying, unless we have been in a situation ourselves, all we can do is speculate.
 

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We can all speculate all we want, but until we are in the same situation ourselves in a Panic Emergency situation we really don't know how we'd react. This most recent guy seemed to be lucky and was on an interstate where he had plenty of time make decisions and give thought to his situation. I don't see any hero's in this situation for stopping the car, I see a lucky old man though. Had he been like my mother, and you nail the gas pedal to the floor everytime you take off from a street light, and it was in a surface street situation, I am sure the outcome would have been much differant as he would not have had the time and space to gain some composure and think about what he was doing. Everyone acts and reacts differantly in an adrenalin rush situation. Just like cops, there are some that are awesome at hitting a target at the range, and they all qualify, or they would not be able to be cops, but its been proven over and over, in real street crime fighting adrenalin rush situations, cops have over a 90% miss rate and they have even been trained how to handle those situations. Just saying, unless we have been in a situation ourselves, all we can do is speculate.
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We can all speculate all we want, but until we are in the same situation ourselves in a Panic Emergency situation we really don't know how we'd react. This most recent guy seemed to be lucky and was on an interstate where he had plenty of time make decisions and give thought to his situation. I don't see any hero's in this situation for stopping the car, I see a lucky old man though. Had he been like my mother, and you nail the gas pedal to the floor everytime you take off from a street light, and it was in a surface street situation, I am sure the outcome would have been much differant as he would not have had the time and space to gain some composure and think about what he was doing. Everyone acts and reacts differantly in an adrenalin rush situation. Just like cops, there are some that are awesome at hitting a target at the range, and they all qualify, or they would not be able to be cops, but its been proven over and over, in real street crime fighting adrenalin rush situations, cops have over a 90% miss rate and they have even been trained how to handle those situations. Just saying, unless we have been in a situation ourselves, all we can do is speculate.
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