On 22/07/18 22:11, NY wrote:
This question was posed in a video reconstruction of an incident in
the US.

You were offered three choices:

- yank on the handbrake
- put the car in neutral
-turn off the ignition

Get the carpet off the pedal

Press the brake pedal. Hard and sustained. The engine is physically not
capable of overriding. One hears about people claiming they tried to
brake and it did nothing. Well, they must have just tried a few gentle jabs.

Turning off the ignition will turn off electric power steering. Not what
you want to add to your list of surprises.