I’ve seen about a million (OK, a little exaggerated) articles about how to stop a car that has a pinned gas pedal. The one thing they agree on is that the only chance you have to get it stopped is to nail the brakes *once* *hard* and stand on them. If you can’t figure out how to get the car onto neutral, and try to pump the brakes or do two applications, they are going to boil the fluid and fail.
My Point: I know a Prius is a relatively light, relatively underpowered car, however, even though the Highway Patrol cruiser would have not had a pinned throttle, it would have had that one chance to get itself stopped, because the Prius had a (supposedly) pinned throttle. So he’s stopping *both* cars? I’m throwing the BS flag here.
The cop car and the Prius never touched. Also, it was demonstrated that a Prius with a fully engaged throttle could be easily stopped by hitting the brakes, and in a relatively short distance. The brakes significantly over power the engine. And as the article pointed out, even a car with a 500+ horsepower engine was able to be stopped in 900 feet with a fully engaged throttle.
Sikes is gonna be in big trouble here. This is looking more and more like the Duke LaCross case, sans the corrupt DA.