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Default Accelerator stuck wide open while car is going fast: what should you do?

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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


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.


Total ********.

The steering doesn't lock until the key is removed.

No handbrake will lock the wheels while the car in is gear.

The answer is to turn off the ignition, but not remove the key. Leave the
car in gear. You will still have steering and brakes.

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