On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:20:49 -0500, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote:

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bulll****. There is just about no car and certainly no toyota that
can't be stopped by the brakes in normal working order even if the
engine is under full throttle. The engine isn't 1/20th as powerful as
the brakes.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/test...toyota-9917789

At about 1:21 Brian Ross says "Brakes don't work". At 2:50 he
expands on that a bit. The brakes did not work.


Try it some time. Floor your car with one foot. Stomp on the brakes
with the other foot. The car will stop. If it is a manual tranny,
the engine will stall.

And yet all these folks with runaway cars say [the survivors] they
stood on the brakes to no avail.

Correct. They were stomping on the accelerator as hard as they could
thinking it was the brakes. If they were stomping on the brakes, the
car would have stopped.