Video – Toyota Prius Driver Needed Help From Police To Stop His Car

By Wednesday March 10, 2010

Yikes!



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  1. Skeptic of the AOBCCS says:
    3/11/2010 at 11:09 am

    re#78, “uh. exploding engine? hehe. you’ve been reading too many comic books, dude. overrevving engines fail internally and just stop running, they don’t “explode”.

    That’s the term usually used when an engine destroys itself by flying apart (internally or otherwise) due to mechanical failure. I’ve seen firsthand what can happen to a VW Bug’s engine when it was over revved. There was a serious dent under the hood where a piston struck it, dude.

    Regardless of the extremeness of the failure, are you suggesting that when that happens you would just coast to a stop? Nothing seizes up? Steering guaranteed not to be affected? You wont lose control and hit another car? I wouldn’t take that chance on the safety of others on the road.

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  2. Steve S says:
    3/11/2010 at 11:37 am

    Skeptic of the AOBCCS said,
    “Regardless of the extremeness of the failure, are you suggesting that when that happens you would just coast to a stop? Nothing seizes up? Steering guaranteed not to be affected? You wont lose control and hit another car? I wouldn’t take that chance on the safety of others on the road.”
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    Given the circumstances, if nothing else worked to slow down the car, I would much rather take the minuscule chance that shifting into neutral *might* slightly reduce my control of the car than to continue swerving around obstacles at high speed. The difference in risk is easily better than 1000:1.

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  3. Skeptic of the AOBCCS says:
    3/11/2010 at 1:14 pm

    Re: Steve S, #80, “Officer Todd Neibert told Sikes to try and put the vehicle in neutral and try to shut it off. Sikes shook his head in response which Neibert took to indicate that that was not successful.”
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35769069/ns/local_news-san_diego_ca/

    So it appears he did try after all and it wouldn’t disengage.

    As for the your less that 1000:1 nothing happening, you would have to look into all the Prius reported incidents, separate all those who tried to get it into neutral at high speed and succeeded, and see if successfully getting the thing in neutral caused a lockup and subsequent crash or if the driver remained in control. Do you have that data? Otherwise, your 1000:1 claim of risk is simply meaningless.

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  4. Sister Mary Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection says:
    3/11/2010 at 5:28 pm

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  5. sargasso says:
    3/11/2010 at 8:55 pm

    Prius owners are watching this, and producing vast amounts of ruminant green house gas.

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  6. Chris says:
    3/12/2010 at 5:13 pm

    This is all a scam. Toyota did this on purpose so GM can get back on its feet. Why else do you think it happen. Toyota never had problems before this and all of a sudden they do right as there number 1 compeditor GM cloese plants and loses money. It was all Planned. Come on get smart people.

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  7. Maggie says:
    3/14/2010 at 8:57 am

    I think this guy clearly wanted to drive recklessly and have a reason to sue Toyota. As they told him his car wasn’t in the recall. And if there is no recall on it…….. and it doesn’t have the faulty parts, how can anything go wrong….. If they examine the car and nothing is broken, missing or stuck, how on earth did it go speeding out of control…. for 10 minutes and this guy clearly wasn’t smart enough to put the darn thing in neutral. unless he just wants money and an excuse to drive like crazy, maybe get in the news, too. He’s just attention crazy.

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