Money is the root of all evil they say. It's been known to make people do crazier things then lie about a car accident.

 

Some people are just retarded, and the media is no better. It's just the sad state of affairs in the world we live in.

 

haha - very true

 

If you follow dynamho's link you'll see that he's quite the character.

 

It's not his (pissed off guy in the video showing you how to stop a car) background we're talking about. At least not who I was refering to. The older guy who claims that we accelerated to 94 mph on the highway is the one who filed for bankruptcy. You know, the one who's probably going to try and sue Toyota now?

 

toyota seems to be bias towards trying to suddenly accelerating for elderly too, man, crazy machine rebelling and trying to kill off our elders!

 

Update on Mr. Sikes and his lawyers. The techs at the Toyota dealer where the Prius is at and engineers from the NHTSA could not make the car take off out of control. When they floored the gas and pressed the breaks the car stopped. Everything they tested came back normal. But here is the best part, the lawyers. They claim that since the Cop that "helped" him slow the car down saw the brake lights come on and smelled the brakes, that proves Mr. Sikes story. Well I'll tell you what, give me any car and I'll make the brakes smell and the lights come on. All whille driving at 94mph. Way too many lawyers seeing $$$$$$$$.

 

this is the best opportunity to bash toyota. you think they will let this go?

its just funny that when this first happened the media reported it like there is no tomorrow. but after that ...

 

There's one thing I am unsure about:

I don't own a Prius and probably will never own one unless it does 0-60 in 3 seconds...even then it's iffy.

The video above shows a couple aspects I'm curious about. First, the shifter. My previous experience with automatic transmissions was the shifter portion was cable driven. I imagine the newest vehicles now have an electronic connection in which the PCM issues shifting commands to the transmission?

Judging by the free-play in the Prius shifter it looks to me that it's totally electronic. The same can clearly be said by the push button ignition. Since there is no physical switching mechanism in the ignition and the transmission is controlled by electronic means it's probable that some kind of glitch in the PCM would prevent both from functioning.

So if your Prius is working correctly then your transmission would obey commands given via the shifter and also shut off by pressing and holding the ignition button. If there was a malfunction and those two items didn't respond to commands you could result in a runaway situation.

Thoughts?

 

It's a SCAM!

 

Prii (lol) only have one gear?

I don't think the government is attacking toyota with strategic censorship. GM can, however, milk this cow for all she's worth!

 

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/23/l...-driver-error/

 

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Very interesting. I think this video sheds new insight for my opinion on the matter.