On Mar 3, 5:22*am, wrote:
On Mar 2, 11:50*pm, wrote:





On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:43:29 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Mar 2, 7:01*am, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Mar 2, 5:55*am, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote:

"mm" wrote

Yes. And some of them won't turn off either, some of the ones with no
keyhole.
You have to hold the button for something like three seconds. *That sounds
like a very long time if you are accelerating in traffic.

Apply brakes, shift into neutral.

No more acceleration.

Do you know for sure how the shift mechanism works on all these cars?
The throttle is fly by wire, what makes you so sure there isn't
something similar for the tranny that could block it from being moved
into certain positions under certain conditions? * That even seems
desirable, does it not? * Like preventing it from being moved into
park while it's moving?

How about like " I tried it on a Lexus ES300 and you can put it in
neutral any time you like, and when in neutral the car slows down, and
when floored in neutral the tachometer jumps between 3000 and 4500
rpm"

I'll bet you didn't do it on one where the car was undergoing
unintended acceleration, did you? *You can do all the tests you want
on a PROPERLY FUNCTIONING car. * *Without knowing how the car is
designed and what is linked to what, you have no way of knowing what
would happen when it's undergoing this unintended acceleration.
How about the computer has the shift locked, the accelerator pegged
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And how about if God reached down and blocked off the shift lever?

Harry K