Unintended Accel... Chevy Truck!

[Jim Haseltine]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Per Lindgren" <lindgre at online.no>


> And one thing that no one's mentioned, if the brakes dont work, you have
> the parking brake! It is supposed to be mechanical so you can use it to
> stop in case the hydraulics fail. Not only that, in the modern cars that
> have brake by wire and throttle by wire, what to do when the electrics
> fail at 80 mph? Aha, the parking brake!

Anybody who has tried it knows that the parking (hand) brake is sod all use
for stopping a car. Even less use than that if it's working on drum brakes.

>And Mercedes just stated that
> they are working on steering by wire for the next S-class. The ECE board
> was not very happy to hear about this, but then Mercedes replyed: If a
> 747 can have steering by wire, why cant our cars?

But 747s are overhaulled every so many hours (maybe not those in China).
What happens when these Merc's are on their 5th owner?

Regards,

Jim Haseltine