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Toyota stuck accelerator highway horror? Or highway hoax?
By Michael Fumento
"On the very day Toyota was making a high-profile defense of its cars, one of them was speeding out of control," according to CBS News and a host of other news outlets.





"It was a pretty frightening Monday afternoon for a driver in San Diego. The California Highway Patrol said the driver of a Toyota Prius [James Sikes] called 911 around 1:30 p.m. to say the car's accelerator was stuck and he couldn't slow it down . . . .At one point the car was traveling at 90 mph.

"The Highway Patrol responded. To get the runaway car to stop, they actually had to put their patrol car in front of the Prius and step on the brakes. The car eventually stopped near La Posta Bridge, but the whole event lasted for about 20 minutes."

Evening news broadcasters had a field day expressing their horror.

Nobody thought to point out the rather suspicious timing, coming at the height of the media madness over Toyota's accelerators. There's been only one similar incident, in which a driver called 911 and the incident ended with his entire family being killed. In fact, some analysts think the entire Toyota frenzy can be traced back to that one incident.

During those 20 minutes, Sikes had the presence of mind to take out his cell phone and place an emergency call but it didn't seem to occur to him to put the car into neutral? When interviewed afterwords on video he never mentioned it. Presumably when directly asked he will say he tried and it didn't work.

Couldn't he push the stop button? First reports said it didn't work. We were told "he couldn't slow the car down."

What about the brakes?

"I was trying the brakes...it wasn't stopping, it wasn't doing anything and it just kept speeding up," Sikes said. He added he could smell the brakes burning he was "pressing the pedal so hard."

Somehow the sticky acceleration problem also caused other completely unrelated systems to malfunction.

Or as one comment posted to a version of the story put it, "As an old automotive/equipment maintenance specialist I'm baffled... I cannot understand why brakes, ignition and everything fails at the same time the accelerator sticks!!!"

Either Toyota is now producing cars that would make an old Yugo shine, or something is terribly wrong with this picture.

Then I found this report, stating "A patrol car pulled alongside the Prius and officers told Sikes over a loudspeaker to use the brakes and emergency brake. After the car slowed to about 50 mph, Sikes felt safe enough to turn off the engine and coast to a halt."

So it never occurred to Sikes to put the car into neutral, he chose to not hit the stop button, and he said that the brakes alone were worthless alone, but were effective in combination with the emergency brake. Certainly the emergency brake alone couldn't have brought the vehicle from 94 mph to 50.

All of which would make one extremely suspicious except for this one vital fact.

We KNOW people would never pull a stunt just for publicity. For example, we know the "balloon boy hoax" did not occur in October. A tearful family did not express fears that their 6-year-old boy could be inside a runaway balloon and did not appear on one national TV show after another insisting it was the God's honest truth - until they were forced to admit they just wanted to be on the teevee.

No, clearly this man's accelerator was stuck.

Even if perhaps what made it stick was his foot.

後面三四段很有趣.............

不是說另一家廠商做的油門踏板不會卡住...

那這下子..要怎麼解釋...😰

	回應 chadzen (chadzen) 所寫
	不是說另一家廠商做的油門踏板不會卡住... 那這下子..要怎麼解釋...😰

請看我的原文回文....................... 我已經不想去翻譯這種東西了,....... 認真讀, 真的很有趣.

	回應 michaeltu0602 (miketu) 所寫
	So it never occurred to Sikes to put the car into neutral, he chose to not hit the stop button, and he said that the brakes alone were worthless alone, but were effective in combination with the emergency brake. Certainly the emergency brake alone couldn't have brought the vehicle from 94 mph to 50. All of which would make one extremely suspicious except for this one vital fact. We KNOW people would never pull a stunt just for publicity. For example, we know the "balloon boy hoax" did not occur in October. A tearful family did not express fears that their 6-year-old boy could be inside a runaway balloon and did not appear on one national TV show after another insisting it was the God's honest truth - until they were forced to admit they just wanted to be on the teevee. No, clearly this man's accelerator was stuck. Even if perhaps what made it stick was his foot. 後面三四段很有趣.............

的確，汽球男孩與之前溫蒂漢堡手指湯的事件都證明了想為錢而出名的人什麼樣的假都編造得出來。現在就等著看這個人能不能解釋以上的種種疑點，以及Toyota與警方的鑑定結果了。

內行人看門道;外行人看熱鬧!🙂

	回應 blhsing (blhsing) 所寫
	回應 michaeltu0602 (miketu) 所寫 So it never occurred to Sikes to put the car into neutral, he chose to not hit the stop button, and he said that the brakes alone were worthless alone, but were effective in combination with the emergency brake. Certainly the emergency brake alone couldn't have brought the vehicle from 94 mph to 50. All of which would make one extremely suspicious except for this one vital fact. We KNOW people would never pull a stunt just for publicity. For example, we know the "balloon boy hoax" did not occur in October. A tearful family did not express fears that their 6-year-old boy could be inside a runaway balloon and did not appear on one national TV show after another insisting it was the God's honest truth - until they were forced to admit they just wanted to be on the teevee. No, clearly this man's accelerator was stuck. Even if perhaps what made it stick was his foot. 後面三四段很有趣............. 的確，汽球男孩與之前溫蒂漢堡手指湯的事件都證明了想為錢而出名的人什麼樣的假都編造得出來。現在就等著看這個人能不能解釋以上的種種疑點，以及Toyota與警方的鑑定結果了。

他的解釋很怪, 而且不合理...... 甚至連警方都替他想藉口
"Landeros didn't know why the driver waited until his speed had dropped to turn off the engine, but the officer speculated that Sikes feared losing the car's power steering.

不過, 就算是他掰的........... 豐田不會告他的. 反而說不定還得到一筆封口費.

板上很多人看到TOYOTA就先冷嘲熱諷一番就對了

管他啥內文啥來源

讓很多不懂車的車主找到很好的出事理由。
建議車廠買車送駕訓課程，包含公德心跟緊急應變處理。
不過大概沒人會去使用。 😞

	回應 michaeltu0602 (miketu) 所寫
	回應 chadzen (chadzen) 所寫 不是說另一家廠商做的油門踏板不會卡住... 那這下子..要怎麼解釋...😰 請看我的原文回文....................... 我已經不想去翻譯這種東西了,....... 認真讀, 真的很有趣.

我只看中文ㄟ 不好意思
等我去外國的討論區我在看英文的
在台灣的討論區 我只想看中文的東西
真抱歉 😇

有錢我也不敢買壹台

美國警察服務精神不錯~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

可以打對折賣嗎？
有錢也想買一台用了...！😭

99.99%的爆衝都是豪洨😆

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100310/78/21rnj.html

新的報導

油箱不要加太多汽油

等它狂飆到沒有油料

它就沒辦法飆了----

可是這是油電混合的

這步就沒有效了

	回應 jonesyeh (jonesyeh) 所寫
	http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100310/78/21rnj.html 新的報導

很舊了...................而且內容還沒加馬戲團動作. 算是很失敗!

	回應 choudada (創大洲) 所寫
	[轉貼]豐田Prius狂飆嚇煞車主 http://news.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/nw/show.cgi/12/1/1/1451963/1.html 2010-03-09 豐田Prius第三代油電混能車早前因為煞車系統失靈而要在全球回收數十萬架 ，但問題仍陸續發生。美國一名Prius車主周一在加州一條繁忙公路上駕車期 間，突然發現車子的油門腳踏「卡著」，並失控地加速狂飆，嚇得他魂飛魄 散，最終要在公路巡警的協助下才能煞停車輛，但已抹一把汗。這名Prius車 主是六十一歲的賽克斯（James Sikes），事發時正駕著二ＯＯ八年款的座駕 ，在聖迭戈市郊的八號州際公路行駛，當時路面十分繁忙。賽克斯因為想越 過速度較慢的前車，於是踩腳踏加速前進，以便「爬頭」，但踩下的腳踏卻 無法彈回原位，此時車子不斷加速，愈飆愈快，時速超過一百四十五公里。 賽克斯十分驚慌，因為不能令車子停下來，他一度感到絕望無助。他說：「 我一直設法煞車，但它仍不斷向前疾衝。」但他在驚慌失措下仍懂得致電九 一一報警，警員接報後立即教他採用一些方法煞車，但都徒勞無助。他一度 靠低身子，嘗試把腳踏拔起，但就是拉它不動。在千鈞一髮之際，一名公路 巡警最終成功追近汽車，並利用擴音器教塞克斯使用緊急煞車掣，最終令汽 車減速至八十公里。塞克斯其後熄掉引擎，車子才停下來。巡警在Prius停下 後，立即用巡邏車堵著Prius，以防它又再失控向前疾衝。

繁忙的路段還可以用145公里的速度打電話求救，能夠拍電影了

打個電話還好
我還在高速公路曾經邊開車邊設定衛星導航

不過彎下身拉腳踏板,就要有過人的勇氣
也許是人在急難的時候,會狗急跳牆,潛力無限

目前看過的最高境界是
高速過彎還可以點煙

不過那是卡通!!!

	回應 lin8810 (沒貨卡開的日子) 所寫
	回應 michaeltu0602 (miketu) 所寫 內文人家都說是腳踏板卡住了, 還在那裡胡亂猜................. 拜託一下, 要post文前, 麻煩看一下自己的內文!!!!! 能不能請教一下, 你講的腳踏板是指什麼? 舖在地上讓腳踩的那一片嗎? 人家原文裏寫的是 回應 choudada (創大洲) 所寫 這名Prius車 主是六十一歲的賽克斯（James Sikes），事發時正駕著二ＯＯ八年款的座駕 ，在聖迭戈市郊的八號州際公路行駛，當時路面十分繁忙。賽克斯因為想越 過速度較慢的前車，於是踩腳踏加速前進，以便「爬頭」，但踩下的腳踏卻 無法彈回原位，此時車子不斷加速，愈飆愈快，時速超過一百四十五公里。 人家講的腳踏很明顯指的是油門, 而不是踩在地上的地墊踏板

一定是腳踏墊卡住油門,而且卡死造成油門踏板沒法回彈,所以還是車主的錯...(如果發生在台灣的話和泰標準答案)