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Kirk  what story? 

It's all over the news about a Toyota Prius owner that had his car accelerate to 90MPH a few times on the freeway and he couldnt stop it....

Was in San Diego, California

That police patrol had to be just about flying to catch up to it and
stick it's rear bumper on the front of a little  :58- box going 90MPH?
How the little car didn't spin off the highway and
flip over a few million rotations is next to unbelievable!

According to what I heard, he managed to get that car to slow down to 55 and that's when the officier played kissing bumper with him.  And I also heard that the same thing happened back east, the day afrer this one in San Diego.  Unfortinately that one was wrecked afterwards. 

It didnt spin off or flip because I think he was DRIVING it at 90MPH.....
To stop the car all he had to do was PRESS the dash button and hold it for 3 seconds.
Also pulling up on the parking brake handle would have locked up the rear wheels (never happened).
It accellerated more than ONCE? why didnt he stop it between the bursts of speed?
The driver I found out is also a suspect in a multi-thousand dollar "Burglary" staged ripoff

I smell a "ripoff" here....stay tuned for more :)

I watched them put the news report/interview together live on the AMC-1 satellite. They were at it for over 30 minutes before they uplinked it to the studio. Mikes and camera were on...and a LOT of stuff was said "NOT FOR AIR" hahahaha
The "Cruiser" DID NOT reduce the speed of the Prius, it merely pulled in front of it AFTER he shut it down so it would not continue to roll. I think the driver got what he was after, fame..and soon fortune.
The one the next day is a copycat..time will see....

30 minutes at roughly 90MPH...They went quite a distance at barreling high speeds!
I wonder how fast the cruiser had to get it's speed up to in order to catch up?
Or did they actually slow down and wait for the little bullet to meet them? lol

This is a job for Statfreak.... :72- :119-

I haven't watched the news since.  I only heard about this because I was at the hospital for Dad's appointment and the news was on.   Maybe it is a fake  but I guess time will tell.  I didn't think those cars could do 90 but I don't have one so I don't know.  You know the news media, anything to 'get your attention' and wonder.

Priuses aren't slow, only their drivers are.

It's a little "Locomotive" takes a while to get it there, but it will do 90 after a while.
Remember, it *IS* a Electric Motor-Generator setup......

I found this...the digital speedo shows an error code of "9L"
Maybe it needs a "Complete SafeRam Clear" chip...???  :97- :72-
ok,ok...it gets stuck on 91MPH for a bit...chill out...lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvqMreOh-A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvqMreOh-A)

Kind of a different story but in 1989 I bought me wife a new Ford Probe GT ( that's what she wanted ) She called me one day and said everytime she started the car the engine ran away, ( full throttle ) I went to her location and she was right, turned out to be one small wire broken going to the fuel injectors. If it had have been a automatic transmission she might have put it in gear,and went for a ride. hard to say she got killed in that same Damn car a couple of years later. Head on accident not her fault.

Most cars are indeed "Drive by Wire" now in design, but something is rotten with the Prius story.
I suspect it will all come out in the wash soon as the car is intact and in NHSA/Toyota's custody.

My throttle cable had busted on my Skidoo one winter morning.
So I pulled the sheathing off of it and just attached
the single cable wire from the throttle down to the carb.
I yanked on the pull cord to start up the engine and turned to go left a bit...Boy that was a mistake...
At full speed in a matter of seconds - I slammed into the side of my mom's stone house.
Bent the ski's to crap...not to mention my front 2 teeth against the handlebars...lol

Many years later, Bombardier came out with wrist-strap "kill engine" keys -
similar to the kind you wear when riding Jetskis on water.

That could of come real handy when I flipped the skidoo over later on when I tried to
go across a deep ditch and the &@%#$ machine ended up on MY belly on top of me??!!
Gas pouring out and the threaded tracks spinning like nuts because the bloody motor was still running!
Try reaching up and hit the red button while it's on top of you! Very difficult at best! lol

That explains it now we know what's wrong with Bunker !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Naa  he didn't say anything about hitting his head. :208- :208- :25- :25-

You notice that too!!!!

I was driving a friend's Prius one time, and he claimed that I must have been speeding in it because the mileage dropped from 45MPG to 43MPG!  :25- :200- :97- He drives so slow and dangerously!!! :37-

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 :97- no comment... :200- :72-

Uhh...Bunker I don't think you should be driving ANYTHING...   :72- :72- :72-  :97- :97- :97-

Funny, that's what my wife says every time she's on the car with me.... :96-
Funny, that's what my wife says every time she's on the car with me.... :96-

I am waiting to see about THIS (fraud?) one too... Did you listen to the 911 calls??? Hmmmmmmm.... :103-

Just put the Damn car in Neutral!!!

I really feel, and have been saying for a while that I think that have a computer hardware or firmware, or software problem.... This is more than floor mats and shims in my mind! One guy had a Toyota doing this accelleration thing and he supposedly hooked a vidcam up in the pedal area with NO floor mats.....

Wonder what else was said OFF AIR????

CH :209- :95-

Ok everbody, I have a 2009 Toyota Corolla with 26,000 miles on it already, I use it for work every day and have NEVER had any problem whatsoever, My girlfriend has had a Toyota Corolla since 2008 with no problems and her father has had a Prius since 2008 with no problems and he drives 80 miles to work each way every day...

   I personally think most people are using this "defect" as a excuse for their own screwups while driving, I have not even taken mine in for "the fix" and probally won't (in case I screwup..lol)

I'll bet you drive a mean golf cart, though!  :200- :208- :208-

Stat  I'll bet you the farm Bunker is in the planning stages of getting his golf club to automatically do his putting for him, if that works out as expected next will be his driver and pretty soon he can send his clubs to the course and he can stay home and say he played 18 holes. :244- :244-

More fuel to Kirk's fire:

Did Bankrupt Runaway Prius Driver Fake "Unintended Acceleration?"
http://jalopnik.com/5491101/did-bankrupt-runaway-prius-driver-fake-unintended-acceleration (http://jalopnik.com/5491101/did-bankrupt-runaway-prius-driver-fake-unintended-acceleration)

I'm telling ya...I have a bloodhound's nose for bull$hit.....
I can't PROVE it..but I feel its a scam.....

Actually, the setup isn't very much like that of a locomotive. Locomotives use huge diesel engines to drive huge generators to power electric motors, and they have no batteries. The limiting factor in a train's acceleration isn't power by any means, it's traction and the mass of the train itself. If you disable the electronics which provide traction control, a locomotive pulling a heavy load will literally spin the drive wheels until they melt and tear up the tracks while they're at it until all you've got left is a pile of slag.

A Prius uses a gas engine to drive the car, as well as an electric motor to assist, and even take over propulsion, if the power needed to move the car is low enough. At speed, the gas engine will charge the batteries when it is being used to power the car down the road, and the electric motor serves double duty as a generator to charge the batteries on deceleration.

At wide open throttle from a dead stop, the gas engine and the electric motor serve to drive the wheels, and all that torque from both the gas engine and the electric motor make it a quick little sucker across the intersection. Once it gains some speed, the electric motor runs out of torque quickly.

A guy I work with bought one of these and I've driven it a few times, the issue with the brakes it the transition time from slowing down with them lightly applied as it uses the generator to charge the batteries to activating the brake system. If you know what to look for and you fool with it, you can go from slowing down gently and hammer the brake pedal, it will take almost a second for the brakes to kick in!  :30-

<edit> neither he not I have ever experienced the "unintended acceleration" issue.

Okay, I experienced unintended acceleration once...  :177-

No really.. It was the day after I bought my Corvette. :5-  I was going about 80 down a major six lane (in each direction) freeway with almost no traffic at all in my direction, and I thought I'd just try a little taste of what the car might do. I downshifted to third, then shifted to fourth and looked down to discover that I was going over 120mph, and I hadn't even pushed the pedal down that far!  :25-  The phrase "oh, s#$t" might have wafted through the cabin and I quickly decelerated and was glad that none of Kirk's cousins were nearby.  :68- :200-

Of course, after that day I experienced a lot more INtended acceleration.  :208- :208- :208-

I have a Toyota Corolla... I wonder if I can try some of this BS the next time I get a ticket? :101-

Yeah, let us know how that works out for you, okay?  :72- :97- :208- :97- :72- :200- :96-

I read today that several class-action lawsuits have been filed by opportunist lawyers on behalf of Toyota owners whose car's resale value has dropped. PBS News reckoned the damages at stake from this could be ten times the payments to people who actually damaged the car or got injured. Bloody money-grabbing crybabies.

Wait a minute, I own two Toyotas. What's that lawyer's number again...  :79-

FINE.  :148- :148- :125-
I will.
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Check here:  :250- Can you get a closeup of the driver? :209- :209- :209- :208-

CH :95-

Did it twice. Backing out of my driveway. Car sharply accelerated. Found to be basic human error. Put foot on gas instead of brake and pressed hard to stop. Car shot  at great speed until correction made.
     The "victim" who has been getting all the media adoration has been connected to the porn business. This provides a plausible explanation. It is just like happened to a friend driving with a gal on a country road. At a climactic moment, unintended acceleration took place. He swished through a snow fence and penetrated deep into a cornfield. True story. His father sought an explanation for the scratches on his car. Cant recall whether Steve used recall as an excuse.NLG members should be able to come up with a name for this type of unintended acceleration.

The problem with trying to explain to a police officer that you're going too fast
with that story,  is then you haveta go on TV afterwards and
declare to the reporter that "I'm not driving that car anymore!"

  :251-  :96-  DUCK!!!!    


lol  I love it! :208-