Toyota Recalls

[IsLNdbOi]

Not everyone knows about putting a car in neutral if it's accelerating uncontrollably. It's not something they taught at driving school. Add that to the fact that people tend to freak out in those kinds of situations and reaction times are different for everyone.

Don't go around calling people morons.

[DerFlosser]

Originally Posted by IsLNdbOi

Not everyone knows about putting a car in neutral if it's accelerating uncontrollably. It's not something they taught at driving school. Add that to the fact that people tend to freak out in those kinds of situations and reaction times are different for everyone.

Don't go around calling people morons.

BUT, it's your responsibility to prepare yourself and throttle sticking is not something new for mechanical configurations. AAMOF, it can happen fairly easily depending on conditions.

I do think that it should be part of a standard driving test/pass though. That combined with being able to change your own flat tire like they do in parts of Europe. People have become so helpless.

[Kongo-Otto]

Originally Posted by DerFlosser

BUT, it's your responsibility to prepare yourself and throttle sticking is not something new for mechanical configurations. AAMOF, it can happen fairly easily depending on conditions.

I do think that it should be part of a standard driving test/pass though. That combined with being able to change your own flat tire like they do in parts of Europe. People have become so helpless.

So true. People are only able to call help via cell phone today. Once my girlfriend had a flat tire on the autobahn. She managed to get to the exit and guess what ... she parked her car in the middle of an intersection and called me on the phone. She told me a co-worker will pick her up and i should take care of the car. When i arrived at the scene i was speechless. The car was literally parked in the middle of an intersection. I was very glad the police didnt see that. Had to pull it off the street to change the tire.

Anyways it seems quite easy to get a license in the US. My cousins went to a highschool in Alabama (they play american football)) and they made it in a couple of days. It needs much more money and effort here to get a license. Cost me about 2200$ back in 1995 to get a license for cars and a motorcycle over here. Its even more expensive nowadays.

[frownonfun]

Originally Posted by IsLNdbOi

Not everyone knows about putting a car in neutral if it's accelerating uncontrollably. It's not something they taught at driving school. Add that to the fact that people tend to freak out in those kinds of situations and reaction times are different for everyone.

Don't go around calling people morons.

the person i'm referring to was a california state highway patrol for goodness sake. how do you become a highway patrol and not know what neutral does? just seems like if anyone would have been prepared for an emergency situation in a vehicle it'd be a highway patrolman.

and it's frickin neutral!! that's the first thing that came to mind to do when i read the story for the first time and my drivers education consisted solely of driving around orange cones in a parking lot.

i think if you have the inability to figure some things out on your own then sorry but that makes you kind of a moron. when i signed the lease for my apartment they didn't instruct me on exactly what to do if there is a fire since i live upstairs. because that is something that's really my responsibility to figure out.

on a side note the only reason the mat got stuck in this case was because it wasn't even the correct mat for that particular vehicle. so if you have the correct mats in your car then you really don't have much to worry about.