[s-cars] Pius... I declare - SHENANIGANS

[JC]

Yeah I think it's a screamingly bad mojo convergence clusterfarq of
reetahded drivers PLUS major electronic brain problems.

something is obviously wrong in Toyotas electronic brain department..  There
are other stories of the Prius brakes not coming on, because the brake pedal
isn't hard-locked to the brakes since the brain is supposed to do
decelleration recharging first and then kick in the physical brakes and so
therefore if the brake-brain farts they might not work.  (If a brain farts
in the woods and there is no-one to hear it then yes it crashes into a
tree).  Hmmm... note to automakers, maybe brake brains = bad idea.

At same time, yeah, dopes.  Most of these folks in runaway sitch I suspect
tenderly depressed the brakes harder and harder hence heating them into full
on racetrackbrakefade mode so eventually yes they were being accurate when
they told coppers 'the brakes wouldn't stop it!'.

<rant> I noticed just this tendency the other day when I was almost
ass-boned by some fine dickhead on a highspeed ramp.  during a normal and
unremarkable heavy traffic sudden-brake-jam moment, everybody around me was
reasonably cool and on top of it but then I looked in the rear-view window
to see yet another asshat barrelling down on me while he tentatively poked
his pinkie toe at the brake pedal. for sumfin like the 5th time in a year
the only reason he didn't mash me was I swerved off into the median while
his beady little pig eyes widened to saucers and his fat little pig fingers
were deathlocked on the wheel. In every one of these aforementioned cases:
1. I HAVE TO MOVE BECAUSE HE'S TOO DUMB TO DRIVE AROUND ME AS HE SLOWS DOWN.
Never OCCURS to idiot to swerve and split lanes or onto median areas, Just
MF'in Deathgrip-2000 on the wheel steady-as-she-goes straight at me frozen
in fear.  I have to see the inevitable playing out IN MY MIRROR and clear
runway for him and end up with him parked next to me in a pool of his own
poo and flopsweat. enjoy your poopypants moron.
2. It is VERY clear they are not pounding the brakes to the floor and that
your average driver doesn't know how hard his car can stop. He pokes the
stoppenzie pedal hard enough so it FEELS like emergency stopping to him "WOW
I NEVER PUSH THE PEDAL THAT FAR!!! OOOOHHHHSHIIIIITTTTTT" but never floors
it and the genuinely useful ABS goes freakin unused... In fact I've heard
people freaking out feeling the ABS clicking on the brakes and say "it went
away when I took my foot off thankfully!" so there you go.

Now had my dillweed buddy from the other day had a runaway-Toyo with open
road, no doubt he'd have heated up and faded his braking capability by
gently increasing pressure on the brake pedal until the rotors were red and
fluid was boiling. And again - he'd be right if he said to the police "pedal
was on floor but din't doo nuffin officer. what's that? the smell? yeah
that's my pants."
</rant>

Lastly re: turning car off and neutral etc. - a bunch of these Toyos are
pushbutton start - maybe I'm wrong but I dunthin maybe you can turn 'em off
or shift them when they are moving?  something about safety feature so a
charming precious little bundle of diaper joy can't poke the off button in
highspeed traffic and cause a disaster... more
electronic-brain-interlock-logic type deals...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of
> 93urs4 at rovershack.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:53 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Pius... I declare - SHENANIGANS
>
> These Prius owners are real brainiacs... of course, the story
> is out of The Peoples Republic of California.
>
> How hard would it be to shift to neutral, pull to the side of
> the road and turn off the car?
>
> He had 8 minutes to figure it out.
>
> James
>


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