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

[LL - NY]

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:35 AM, <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:

>
> ROFLMAO @ your manifesto!  As I've mentioned before - please keep up the
> good posting work, love the laughs.  I fear there are now 2 nearly
> unintelligible / incoherent ranters on ze List - love it.
>
> -Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JC [mailto:jc at j2c3.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:41 AM
> To: 93urs4 at rovershack.com; s-car-list at audifans.com; Krasusky Paul
> (WQQ2PXK)
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Pius... I declare - SHENANIGANS
>
> 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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