Because he had no brakes and was likely still travelling at a decent pace?
French driver trapped for an hour in speeding 125mph car with no brakes
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Because he had no brakes and was likely still travelling at a decent pace?
Not always, on the new BMW autos the gear selector is just a switch and you can't change into neutral while you're moving, or change down a gear when the revs are too high.
he should have just turned the key back one click, would still have had PAS and brake assist but would have just coasted to a stop.
I'm always sceptical of these "driver couldn't stop his car" stories especially the "my cruise control got stuck on" ones as there are about 5 different ways of stopping a car which are all highly reliable and independant of each other.
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The key point of this story is that is was modified fro disabled used. Now im not sure what the typical useage profile of a disabled driver is but im pretty sure converted cars do not have clutch pedals and gearsticks, they also do not have the OEM FMEA on the system so once who ever modified it has done there work there is a range of failure modes.
Oh, you're *that* driver. The one who only pulls over once he's slowed you down to whatever speed *he* feels everyone should be going at...
You can go as fast as you want, I certainly don't hang around.
It's pretty logical to assume if I'm overtaking I'm not going to slam on my brakes, pull in to allow someone going 125mph to pass. I'll move over as quickly as my manoeuvre has been completed.
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A Renault scenic killed itself outside my house having gotten a mind of its own. Was a diesel, and the key (card) was in the drivers hand when he pulled up and dived out, engine screaming and smoke everywhere. Only chance of shutting it down I could figure was to pull the battery (kill the diesel pump) but the engine was really screaming at that point so I left it alone - I might have pulled something off and gotten blamed for engine death.
As it happened the thing melted the big end (I assume) because it ground to a horrible, scorching hot death.
French Cars. If you don't kill you they'll kill themselves at some point. Had enough Citroens to know that
As it happened the thing melted the big end (I assume) because it ground to a horrible, scorching hot death.
French Cars. If you don't kill you they'll kill themselves at some point. Had enough Citroens to know that
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Thats shocking tbh.
A Renault scenic killed itself outside my house having gotten a mind of its own. Was a diesel, and the key (card) was in the drivers hand when he pulled up and dived out, engine screaming and smoke everywhere. Only chance of shutting it down I could figure was to pull the battery (kill the diesel pump) but the engine was really screaming at that point so I left it alone - I might have pulled something off and gotten blamed for engine death.
As it happened the thing melted the big end (I assume) because it ground to a horrible, scorching hot death.
French Cars. If you don't kill you they'll kill themselves at some point. Had enough Citroens to know that
This made me chuckle, I'm not ashamed to admit.
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Sounds very Hollywood
Not really, the Police do this all the time, it's called "box and stop" where a few vehicles cover all sides of the vehicle and force it to stop.
Rolling stop.
Or dont stop it, escort it along at 200 km/h for 200 km, run out of petrol, then instead of just coasting to a stop it swerves into a ditch.
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A Renault scenic killed itself outside my house having gotten a mind of its own. Was a diesel, and the key (card) was in the drivers hand when he pulled up and dived out, engine screaming and smoke everywhere. Only chance of shutting it down I could figure was to pull the battery (kill the diesel pump) but the engine was really screaming at that point so I left it alone - I might have pulled something off and gotten blamed for engine death.
As it happened the thing melted the big end (I assume) because it ground to a horrible, scorching hot death.
French Cars. If you don't kill you they'll kill themselves at some point. Had enough Citroens to know that
Sounds like it was ingesting and burning its own oil rather than diesel so pulling the fuel pump fuse wouldn't do anything anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine_runaway
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TPAC Tactical Pursuit and Containment , the car boxing in tecnique,
Also you can bypass the engine stop button "not working while moving along" by pressing it for 3+ seconds, also relevant on the auto electric handbrake.
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Barrett 50 cal round through the block would have done the job too.
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Yeah thats what I meant.
Seems to make a lot more sense than just escorting it for an HOUR hoping he doesnt hit some innocent driver causing even more damage.
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He must be stuck in 1983.