Another Prius with a stuck accelerator today
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Update on Mr. Sikes and his lawyers. The techs at the Toyota dealer where the Prius is at and engineers from the NHTSA could not make the car take off out of control. When they floored the gas and pressed the breaks the car stopped. Everything they tested came back normal. But here is the best part, the lawyers. They claim that since the Cop that "helped" him slow the car down saw the brake lights come on and smelled the brakes, that proves Mr. Sikes story. Well I'll tell you what, give me any car and I'll make the brakes smell and the lights come on. All whille driving at 94mph. Way too many lawyers seeing $$$$$$$$.
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There's one thing I am unsure about:
I don't own a Prius and probably will never own one unless it does 0-60 in 3 seconds...even then it's iffy.
The video above shows a couple aspects I'm curious about. First, the shifter. My previous experience with automatic transmissions was the shifter portion was cable driven. I imagine the newest vehicles now have an electronic connection in which the PCM issues shifting commands to the transmission?
Judging by the free-play in the Prius shifter it looks to me that it's totally electronic. The same can clearly be said by the push button ignition. Since there is no physical switching mechanism in the ignition and the transmission is controlled by electronic means it's probable that some kind of glitch in the PCM would prevent both from functioning.
So if your Prius is working correctly then your transmission would obey commands given via the shifter and also shut off by pressing and holding the ignition button. If there was a malfunction and those two items didn't respond to commands you could result in a runaway situation.
Thoughts?
I don't own a Prius and probably will never own one unless it does 0-60 in 3 seconds...even then it's iffy.
The video above shows a couple aspects I'm curious about. First, the shifter. My previous experience with automatic transmissions was the shifter portion was cable driven. I imagine the newest vehicles now have an electronic connection in which the PCM issues shifting commands to the transmission?
Judging by the free-play in the Prius shifter it looks to me that it's totally electronic. The same can clearly be said by the push button ignition. Since there is no physical switching mechanism in the ignition and the transmission is controlled by electronic means it's probable that some kind of glitch in the PCM would prevent both from functioning.
So if your Prius is working correctly then your transmission would obey commands given via the shifter and also shut off by pressing and holding the ignition button. If there was a malfunction and those two items didn't respond to commands you could result in a runaway situation.
Thoughts?
03-20-2010, 03:04 PM
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There's one thing I am unsure about:
I don't own a Prius and probably will never own one unless it does 0-60 in 3 seconds...even then it's iffy.
The video above shows a couple aspects I'm curious about. First, the shifter. My previous experience with automatic transmissions was the shifter portion was cable driven. I imagine the newest vehicles now have an electronic connection in which the PCM issues shifting commands to the transmission?
Judging by the free-play in the Prius shifter it looks to me that it's totally electronic. The same can clearly be said by the push button ignition. Since there is no physical switching mechanism in the ignition and the transmission is controlled by electronic means it's probable that some kind of glitch in the PCM would prevent both from functioning.
So if your Prius is working correctly then your transmission would obey commands given via the shifter and also shut off by pressing and holding the ignition button. If there was a malfunction and those two items didn't respond to commands you could result in a runaway situation.
Thoughts?
I don't own a Prius and probably will never own one unless it does 0-60 in 3 seconds...even then it's iffy.
The video above shows a couple aspects I'm curious about. First, the shifter. My previous experience with automatic transmissions was the shifter portion was cable driven. I imagine the newest vehicles now have an electronic connection in which the PCM issues shifting commands to the transmission?
Judging by the free-play in the Prius shifter it looks to me that it's totally electronic. The same can clearly be said by the push button ignition. Since there is no physical switching mechanism in the ignition and the transmission is controlled by electronic means it's probable that some kind of glitch in the PCM would prevent both from functioning.
So if your Prius is working correctly then your transmission would obey commands given via the shifter and also shut off by pressing and holding the ignition button. If there was a malfunction and those two items didn't respond to commands you could result in a runaway situation.
Thoughts?
I don't think the government is attacking toyota with strategic censorship. GM can, however, milk this cow for all she's worth!
03-23-2010, 10:31 AM
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