Posted on 03/15/2010 5:49:54 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Apparently, their real problem has been successfully advertising to old people. Over half the runaway accelerations that led to death happened to people over 60.
This clown had time for a 20+ minute 911 call and didn’t have time to try neutral? If that’s the case, he shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
Steve Wozniak strongly disagrees with you, it happend at least 3 times to him.
He is said to know a thing or two about computers, and he flat out stated it was a software problem. Toyota had his car for more than a week and “couldn’t find a problem”.
Google for yourself, old Steve even made the morning news shows talking about it.
I’m hearing the brakes were still in perfect working order and showed NO SIGN of being burned out by the type of long, continuous use he claims.
If his story was true, we’re practically talking enough heat here to melt an axle!
Dude’s a shyster. Plain and simple.
Exactly.
From one of the sites I searched:
“But Wozniak said he was surprised several months ago when his 2010 Toyota Prius started accelerating on its own — to as much as 97 mph — when he used cruise control to increase the vehicle’s speed. He said he had to tap the brakes to stop the car from accelerating.”
I’ve had that happen at least twice with my Chrysler 300M (except I didn’t let it go to 97). Each time I did exactly what he did and tried it again and it worked fine. It was nothing more than a very minor inconvenience.
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