Give them some time, it took them a week of investigating to decide to arrest him, still a lot of this story left to play out but something has prompted them to go down that route
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Give them some time, it took them a week of investigating to decide to arrest him, still a lot of this story left to play out but something has prompted them to go down that route
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I have no idea why people are guessing at brake by wire. It’s a blending braking system. You can override the e booster with mechanical force on the pedal to pressure the brake system like any other car. Just the assistance is a lot less.
A car at full power isn’t getting kissed to a stop by a police car either.
100mph was suspicious. It would be slowing down or bouncing at 124mph.
A car at full power isn’t getting kissed to a stop by a police car either.
100mph was suspicious. It would be slowing down or bouncing at 124mph.
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DVLA? are they going to check his license twice?
So clueless it’s just comedy now.
DVSA then, whatever. They investigate serious safety/quality issues with cars...
Long overdue with JLR
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You’re the one on the learning journey darling, not us.DVSA then, whatever. They investigate serious safety/quality issues with cars...
Long overdue with JLR
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While we are speculating can I throw in that he got flashed by a speed camera and thought... "I know how I can get out of this...".
I'm also speculating that it was this guy behind the wheel https://youtu.be/S2MhF3SFF-4?si=QsAskaSiFBA4l6SN
I'm sure I'll get shot for this but... the Dacia Spring in top spec actually looks like a decent little run around.
I'm also speculating that it was this guy behind the wheel https://youtu.be/S2MhF3SFF-4?si=QsAskaSiFBA4l6SN
I'm sure I'll get shot for this but... the Dacia Spring in top spec actually looks like a decent little run around.
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Eh ? You read the daily mail too much. Where are these cars launching into houses? Usually it’s driver error when they don’t realise the car is on and stand on the accelerator Like that taycan that ended up on the roof of a car.
Where are these ipaces that launched it into a house? The JLR hate from you is pretty tedious. And you drive a lotus right ????
Such a moron. As you don’t have an EV I wonder why you even read this thread? Just to cause trouble I’m sureDVSA then, whatever. They investigate serious safety/quality issues with cars...
Long overdue with JLR
Quite a few posts (and YouTube footage) on owners forums of unintended acceleration from I-Pace specifically if you actually bother to look it up.
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lol at that video.... That was less than an ideal situation .
Joking aside that scenario is exactly why i barely used cruise control on my old car which didnt have adaptive cruise or emergency breaking. i always worried in a split second emergency when i was resting my foot i would slam down on the clutch or accelerator.
.Joking aside that scenario is exactly why i barely used cruise control on my old car which didnt have adaptive cruise or emergency breaking. i always worried in a split second emergency when i was resting my foot i would slam down on the clutch or accelerator.
Could be - but I'd rather wait for the investigation before jumping to any conclusions.
I've had brake runaway before - my own dumbass fault though, a can of drink rolled from under the seat to beneath the pedal without me realising. It's pretty terrifying coming up to a junction and suddenly the pedal won't move. Luckily that car had a manual handbrake.
But, for a prolonged period on a motorway? I don't know - first thought would be to put it into neutral, failing that off.
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i am sure i read somewhere that the vast majority of the time that is when the driver has had adaptive cruise on and not thought to disable it, they are driving behind a car which then pulls off leaving them potentially in a 30mph area but the car still set to 60/70mph on the cruise control which then leads to the car deciding to stretch its legs.
i can attest that i have done that myself, however that is a problem with the driver not the car imo
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Well one of them was inside a garage. Went full throttle in to a wall while creeping forward. When a mechanic tried to reverse, it did it again.
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that is scary if true............. and maybe it is true, but my gut feeling is the simplest explanation is sometimes the obvious one. the mechanic ballsed up and smacked the car into a wall, or it had creep set with an auto box and he thought oh hell! how am i gonna explain this one to the customer..................................... thats it, the car did it!.
but that said, i am not saying these things dont happen....... cars sometimes do fail, just like brake cables can fail, or bolts can shear leading to your steering failing and what not.
its not an EV issue however some people really do love to conflate the 2.
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Yeah that comment needed an emoji as I was only joking. Be ironic if that ended up being the case!
I'll never forget my grandad pulling over at the side of the road randomly. We were following behind and my dad jumped out "what's up?" "My brakes have gone, pedal is rock hard." Dad walks over and comes back 30 seconds later shaking his head. One of his dogs rubber balls had rolled into the footwell and wedged under the pedal
Maybe I missed a detail, the owner went in to the wall while driving in. The mechanic was the one who tried to reverse. So did the same for two people.
Unexpected Full throttle acceleration / launch
www.i-paceforum.com
New poster, lack of detail, no pictures, no follow up, hasn't even been on that forum since the day after they posted the thread.
Sounds legit.
Conspiracy theory - Nasher is posting these stories on iPace forums so he can reference them later on here.
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like i said it does happen sadly. Actor Anton Yelchin - (possibly butchered spelling - chekov in star trek reboot) was crushed by his ........... jeep i think it was, when it somehow engaged drive and pinned him to his gate, crushing him.
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He was on the owners forum, wanted out of his finance deal after about 7 months or something so has been doing weird stuff apparently, allegedly, without prejudice.
This is the bit that gets me. He wasnt arrested straight away as a matter of course. It was only after the Police has investigated that he was arrested. That was after a week. So something must be showing up as "odd". I am sure I saw elsewhere it was stated the Police had arrested him after receiving information from JLR