According to this page, the problem of runaway acceleration is electronic.
I caught the tail end of this story on the radio yesterday and the above expert was interviewed. The scariest part was a story of a woman whos car accelerated to 160kph and even though she selected neutral and then reverse it still kept going. It appears that anything the computer thinks is dangerous it refuses to do. So at 100kph it will not select neutral or turn off the engine. This latter bit might be wrong as it was during this discussion that I started to pay attention.
Any thoughts?
Mike.
Edit, title should say maybe but I can't edit it.
I caught the tail end of this story on the radio yesterday and the above expert was interviewed. The scariest part was a story of a woman whos car accelerated to 160kph and even though she selected neutral and then reverse it still kept going. It appears that anything the computer thinks is dangerous it refuses to do. So at 100kph it will not select neutral or turn off the engine. This latter bit might be wrong as it was during this discussion that I started to pay attention.
Any thoughts?
Mike.
Edit, title should say maybe but I can't edit it.
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