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Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2

Posted by michael on from the joyride dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As a sequel to the previous Slashdot story where a car 'began accelerating to 120 mph on its own', Renault (the car manufacturer) has examined the supposed faulty car, and as many of us have suspected, no anomaly has been found (google translation). Renault will initiate a court action to discover the truth about the matter. Read more about it here (translation)."

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  1. Happened to my wife a few months ago by Enry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    She escaped with only burned out brake calipers.

    The fault was a bit of grit or buildup preventing the throttle from closing properly.

    Keep your air filter clean and don't buy junk gas.

  2. Bit like Airbus by reality-bytes · · Score: 5, Interesting


    If you remember that Airbus that crashed at an airshow a few years back when it's Die-By-Wire flight-controls refused to give the pilot TOGA power.

    That accident was put down to pilot-error by Airbus and the French (Government) Investigators. The case has now been re-opened on the merit that the CVR and FDR data seems to have been played with.

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    1. Re:Bit like Airbus by hoofie · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I recall seeing a documentary on this a few years ago. They looked at the FDR outputs and comapared the time-lag between the pilots inputs and the control response.

      Once the pilot realised he was making an arse of it [he was low and slow, even for a demo - he has passengers for god's sake], he requested TOGA [To-Go-Around if I'm correct] power from the engines and put some back pressure on the side-controller. The engines started to spool up [you can hear it on the video of the crash], but the elevators refused to respond for a number of seconds - the flight computers were in landing mode and as far as they concerned they saw an unsafe input. So they said 'Non'. By the time the elevators started to respond to the pilot input, he was in the trees and sadly, people died.

  3. Re:Yeah... by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I lived in Phoenix, there was a woman who had her Hyundai accelerate out of control. She was blowing through red lights, barely managing to keep her car under control. The police were trying to clear traffic ahead of her, and finally one got in front of her and used his brakes to slow her car down. It was a frightening event, and everyone was just happy that the woman was safe, and that she hadn't killed anyone else.

    And then, it happened again. Turns out she was just an attention whore, and nothing was wrong with her Hyundai.

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