Posted on 03/15/2010 11:57:14 PM PDT by hamboy
You’re operating under a false assumption & clearly do not know how the Prius braking system works. Hint, it doesn’t work like a normal car. Read up some & you’ll change your mind, I think.
They didn’t snub me posterior orifice. If any snubbing was done it was me to the UAW since I “snubbed” them and moved on with my life, which by the way, jerk, is my right or anyone elses for that matter. I was making some observations on how the UAW reacts to situations it doesn’t like. Too bad you’re too stupid to understand the written word, and worse that you can’t simply ask for clarification which I’d been happy to have provided. I suggest you go back in the bathroom with your copy of Hustler and really satisfy yourself. I suppose that this response to you could be construed as a “snub”. Have a nice day limp wrist.
Instead of a flip and holier-than-thou response, why don't you try to explain what part I got wrong from the Toyota press release which stated:
The Prius braking system uses both conventional hydraulic friction brakes and a regenerative braking system which switches the electric drive motors into brakes to generate electricity.The system features a sophisticated self- protection function which cuts engine power if moderate brake pedal pressure is applied and the accelerator pedal is depressed more than approximately 50 percent, in effect providing a form of “brake override.”
This function, which is intended to protect the system from overload and possible damage, was found to be functioning normally during the preliminary field examination.
Now, what part of the Toyota Prius braking system do I not understand?
The part where you want me to explain to you how it works. Like I said, read up (do the work) & you’ll change your mind, I think. If you read Toyota’s response correctly. you’ll see it’s all there. How’s that for flip?
Well, I guess you showed them. Serves them right seeing how they really missed such a gem. No need for clarification, by the way. You’re quite an open page.
Clymer.
I note that your union reached agreement with Toyota over the buy out packages associated with shutting down NUMMI. The only thing that would have made things better, IMO, would have been if you could have gotten your car company, the "new" GM to maintain the arrangements with Toyota. Your brothers and sisters wouldn't have had to take those buy outs.
>>...he is not appearing on TV, he has nothing to gain.<<<
Really? Where did the picture come from? What are those microphone looking thingees in the picture?
>>...he is NOT planning to file a lawsuit...<<
Based on the facts as they are coming out, and emphasizing your comment uses the present tense, I agree with you. Based on what happened that first day, I have no doubt whatsoever that this was a ploy for a nice fat lawsuit settlement. None whatsoever. And when you check the guy’s track record, it only supports that position.
I think what he is planning to do now is keep himself out of prison for attemting to defame Toyota. If I were them, I’d go for the jugular.
In the article it said he depressed them in a way that overrides the automatic safety feature.
Actually, in the story in the OP:
“Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it believes the driver of a Prius involved in a high-speed incident on a California highway repeatedly pressed the brake and accelerator, apparently defeating a system that can prevent unintended acceleration.”
Why is a guy, trying to stop his car, depressing the accelerator multiple times - the same accelerator he said he reached down and tried to pull up because it was “stuck to the floor” even though he would have needed the arms of a chimpanzee to even touch the front of the pedal?
Based on the “feel” of your reply, I’d say you are getting in touch with your Inner UAW self. ;)
Please, I’m just funnin’ ya. :)
I like Toyotas. I owned a '91 Camry that lasted 200K miles. But I've also previously driven a company Oldsmobile Bravada, vintage 1990, that one day the brake pedal sank right to the floor, with nothing happening. I briefly panicked, then released the brake and pressed it again. This time the brakes worked fine. It also happened to two other coworkers on two other occasions. The dealership never found anything wrong with the brakes or the antilock brake system, but there was an intermittant problem that three of us experienced once in 3 years of driving that vehicle.
Maybe the guy is scamming, but it is also very possible with the 100% drive-by-wire Prius to have a computer glitch that sticks the throttle.
At least my Jeep Liberty still has a throttle cable attached to the throttle body butterfly, so even though it's electronically controlled, there is still a mechanical way to starve the engine of air. With the Prius, it's all electronic.
If it was one thing against this guy, this could be “reasonably argued”. It is many things. The evidence against the guy is quite damning. His position holds no water whatsoever.
I agree with everything you said regarding the possibility of problems. The issue you talked about in the Olds is a single problem. For this guy, there would have had to be not only catastrophic failure of multiple systems, but both electronic and mechanical. Plus, the parts do not show evidence of what he said happened. This thing just fails on a myriad of levels.
Cheers!
Now you’re just being silly.
Bingo! He couldn’t, you couldn’t, no one could save Tarzan’s chimp (although I’m sure he’d drive a Hummer), reach that pedal. Besides, 250+ brake applications? Sorry give-him-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-ers, he’s lying scumbag.
Well if I were, I’d be trespassing on your perogative I suppose.
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