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Cubone posted:man, that sucks. what do you do if your accelerator gets stuck? shift into neutral and then turn your car off if you can good luck doing that with your fancy pants neuvo gear shifters and keyless start systems lmao
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The biggest issue is that you have a very limited amount of time to figure out what's going on and what to do about it. Best case scenario, you're on a straight , empty freeway but if not you're probably hosed.
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Cubone posted:man, that sucks. what do you do if your accelerator gets stuck? You're not doing any of that in the two seconds before you become a smear on the pavement Like a decade ago there was a whole thing where Toyota was making their gas pedals in such a way that people were getting poo poo wedged in them, or just going for the brakes and stomping on the gas instead, and despite it being like the most obvious quickly addressed possible reason for a car to be accelerating out of control it took almost a year and a nationwide recall for anyone to figure out what was happening, meanwhile the company was blaming cosmic rays and poo poo A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Nov 25, 2023 |
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Vegetable posted:Old white boomer dying in a speeding fiery car crash en route from a casino to a cancelled Canadian KISS concert, you can稚 write this poo poo Well, 53 years old is Gen X, but yeah
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If your car starts accelerating through town and you aren't hitting the brakes before you start going over 100mph then you have bigger problems.
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If it were me I would simply not launch my car into the sky and explode like a rich man's rocket ship.
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200,000 dollar new car: explodes my 3,000 dollar 20yo car: doesn't explode I think I see the issue here
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Grey Cat posted:If your car starts accelerating through town and you aren't hitting the brakes before you start going over 100mph then you have bigger problems. In a regular car you can stand on the brake pedal, but then that will overheat the brakes and they don't work anymore. So the best thing to do is probably use the time that your brakes are slowing you down to find a safe way to crash. In a 550 HP car it's probably still accelerating while you're standing on the brakes. And then the brakes overheat and you're accelerating a lot faster. So yeah good luck.
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News to me, sporty cars can't stop. They should do something about that.
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Turn as hard as you can and just start doing mad donuts until the gas tank is empty
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Hmmm I should check if my Bentley is affected by that recall.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:meanwhile the company was blaming cosmic rays and poo poo
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numberoneposter posted:Hmmm I should check if my Bentley is affected by that recall. lol
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:You're not doing any of that in the two seconds before you become a smear on the pavement I choose to believe Toyota blamed cosmic rays for bad design and will not search this further because why would I
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EorayMel posted:I choose to believe Toyota blamed cosmic rays for bad design and will not search this further because why would I Maybe the cosmic rays gave that bentley super powers.
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EorayMel posted:I choose to believe Toyota blamed cosmic rays for bad design and will not search this further because why would I The brake/accelerate bit in the car-go-now? computer was getting flipped.
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Cubone posted:lol He's not kidding https://www.livescience.com/8170-toyota-recall-caused-cosmic-rays.html
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Could be a number of reasons for dropping the accelerator not related to anything mechanical with the car, like she squeezed too hard or the coke was too strong.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Like a decade ago there was a whole thing where Toyota was making their gas pedals in such a way that people were getting poo poo wedged in them, or just going for the brakes and stomping on the gas instead, and despite it being like the most obvious quickly addressed possible reason for a car to be accelerating out of control it took almost a year and a nationwide recall for anyone to figure out what was happening, meanwhile the company was blaming cosmic rays and poo poo some of the toyota unintended acceleration cases from ~10 years ago may have been caused by floor mats, but based on my understanding of the evidence it seems much more likely that the software used to control the electronic throttle was to blame. i believe you have toyota's PR strategy backwards here: they spent years blaming drivers for shoving objects next to the accelerator, when the problem actually was that they designed their software so badly that a cosmic ray could flip a single bit in the control computers and make the car go nuts mechanically one of the wildest details from this scandal is that toyota's software had over 10,000 unprotected global variables, meaning that any part of the software could overwrite the data from another part of the software. and this seems to be how many of the deaths connected to toyotas back then happened: the car software got into an incorrect state that made it so that stepping on the brake did not disengage the engine/transmission/etc like it is supposed to here is an article for anyone who is interested https://www.safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-the-big-bowl-of-spaghetti-code/
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DickParasite posted:He's not kidding
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Grey Cat posted:News to me, sporty cars can't stop. They should do something about that. Ima nerd out for a second but a Bentley brake rotor is like 17 inches in diameter. Larger than an economy car wheel. They are stupid big.
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Klyith posted:In a regular car you can stand on the brake pedal, but then that will overheat the brakes and they don't work anymore. So the best thing to do is probably use the time that your brakes are slowing you down to find a safe way to crash. If you stand on the brakes - *really* stand on the brakes - very few cars have got such lovely brakes/so much power that wont stop the car even with the motor at full power. The Bentley has got exceptionally big powerful brakes. The issue of brakes overheating in this situation is more the drivers are not actually burying the brake pedal and panicking while trying to work out how to throw the car into neutral when half the shitboxes on the road don't have a easy way to do this anymore.
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The bath throughts are really starting to come together now and feels like I'm getting close to finally cracking this X-File. What if, what if these 5th generation east coast WASP trust fund babies WERE actually coke mules set to supply the entirety of Totoro KISS concert with top grade Colombian right out of their asses? And this was a Jersey mob hit!?
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I would just hit the eject button. Sorry honey. * Flies away
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redshirt posted:I would just hit the eject button. Sorry honey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfVh1v7GGKY
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You can get these with new Bentleys if you get the subscription.
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redshirt posted:You can get these with new Bentleys if you get the subscription. I hear the extra weight makes it so the brakes don't work at all, you just can't stop, but it seems like a decent trade.
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Nyan Bread posted:Totoro KISS concert lol
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Grey Cat posted:I hear the extra weight makes it so the brakes don't work at all, you just can't stop, but it seems like a decent trade. School's coming up Sally, get ready to eject on 3, 2..........1
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Isn't it a regulatory requirement that the brakes are required to be powerful enough to stop the car with the engine at full throttle?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:If you stand on the brakes - *really* stand on the brakes - very few cars have got such lovely brakes/so much power that wont stop the car even with the motor at full power. The Bentley has got exceptionally big powerful brakes. Three Olives posted:Isn't it a regulatory requirement that the brakes are required to be powerful enough to stop the car with the engine at full throttle? Yeah this makes sense now that I think about it. Or maybe you have a driver who is older, or for whatever other reason can't press hard on the brakes. A car that weighs 2.5 tons would need hella brakes to stop quickly. OTOH 550 HP does mean that if you have gas/break confusion, you are going 100 MPH before you work out what's happening.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:If you stand on the brakes - *really* stand on the brakes - very few cars have got such lovely brakes/so much power that wont stop the car even with the motor at full power. The Bentley has got exceptionally big powerful brakes. Yeah it wasn稚 enough time for the brakes to have overheated. Skill issue.
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Have we taken into account the possibility the driver did it on purpose? Possibly to avoid the concert or breaking up altogether?
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radiolab has an episode about bitflips and cosmic rays. apparently one election in europe and one machine gave someone 2^n votes. there's also a supposed modern example where some super mario 64 speedrunner had a glitch where he suddenly jumped super high.
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"Cosmic Rays wiped my Homework!"
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PhazonLink posted:radiolab has an episode about bitflips and cosmic rays. apparently one election in europe and one machine gave someone 2^n votes. That was a supposed route for tick tock clock that nobody has been able to replicate. I thought the vote thing was america but I could be wrong. I do remember watching a video on it though, there was also an example of bit flips on a plane which is terrifying.
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Grey Cat posted:Have we taken into account the possibility the driver did it on purpose? Possibly to avoid the concert or breaking up altogether? No, the various forum experts have already weighed in and the verdict's that the SCADA software controlling this Luxury Range Rover (that has more lines than SpaceX's rocket landing sequence) has caused its ceramic brakes (that can literally stop a runaway Boeying 747 without turning into hot plasma) to cease up launcing the car across the falls, and somehow Toyota's responsible for it all.
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