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Jim Elbrecht

(PST), wrote:

On Mar 2, 9:24*am, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
wrote:

-snip-
* * Problem is-
it isn't a perfect world. * *In the Calif crash, the car was a loaner
whose brakes were *already compromised. *

How were the brakes compromised?

I worded that clumsily- The car had the same uncontrolled acceleration
problem the week before- so there is a good chance that that driver
had jumped on the brakes once or twice. Ii should have said "brakes
may have been compromised".

[still- it looks like
shifting into neutral should have saved the day. *but we don't *know*
that they didn't try that.]

How do you know that they didn't try that? With a CA highlway patrol
officer that was trained in police driving techniques and surely isn't
an idiot driving, I would strongly suspect that they would have tried
it.

I would too. but, as I said "we don't *know*".

Jim