[urq] Toyota should be talking to Audi....NAC

[Steve Eiche]

Mike,
My response wasn't in response to you.  In fact, I can't say that I even 
read your post before my post - sorry...  My point is just that the fact 
a car's brakes CAN overcome the engine, many (most?) situations aren't 
ones that lend themselves to a full panic stop, which is about the only 
way that braking will stop a car with a WOT.  The media always goes for 
the most sensational, and we naturally point to those examples to say 
how poorly some people react to adverse situations.  Some people do a 
good job of assessing a situation and dealing with it, while others lock 
up and kill innocent people.  Most cases are probably in between.

Steve

Ingo Rautenberg wrote:
> But c'mon, she SAID she shifted to neutral and even reverse to no 
> avail..  And them everything suddenly was ok again after the phone 
> call.  Funny how the subsequent owners report no problems whatsoever.  
> And they let her cry in front of the camera.  Drama made for TV.  If 
> it's on TV, it must be true, right??? Arghhh.
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Mike Sylvester <mike at urq20v.com 
> <mailto:mike at urq20v.com>> wrote:
>
>     I agree that the panic stop isn't the best way out of the situation.
>     My point was that the brakes could stop the car.
>     That was my reason behind the moron comment.
>     If they had time to make the phone call, they could have shifted into
>     neutral.
>
>     Mike
>
>