On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:11:08 +0100, "NY" wrote:

You were offered three choices:

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

The "correct" answer was to put the car in neutral. Turning off the engine
would lock the steering. Pulling on the handbrake would lock the rear
wheels.

I'm not sure I agree with their answer.

I was a sometime passenger in a clapped-out VW bus where this happened fairly
regularly.

The driver would press the clutch and remove his flip-flops (or, once, clogs),
wrap his toes around the back of the accelerator, and pull it back up. Sorted.

An old VW engine doesn't get up to much speed in the moment that practiced
driver took to do this. And the possibility of the car accelerating violently
because of throttle stuck fully open was hoped for, but zero.


Thomas Prufer