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

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Nick Finnigan wrote:
On 22/07/2018 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

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.


It might be the correct first action with a US slushbox.


Not so - the engine will be turned by the car moving with an auto until
the speed gets pretty low.

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