Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2

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)."

Comments

I still don't get it

[scythian]

WTF, even if the brake pedal (hello, aren't we still on hydraulic brakes???) wouldn't stop the car, couldn't he have shifted it into neutral?

This would require *MULTIPLE* failures...

[Cesaro]

First something would need to break that would be applying more throttle than intended. That could be electronic malfunction or the throttle cable could get stuck.

Next your transmission would need to get stuck. As someone stated a couple articles up, why can't you just shift into neutral and coast to a stop?

Even if those two items broke simultaneously, your brakes would need to fail to keep you from stopping. These are hydrolic systems that are controlled by some form of electronic assisstance so that could theoretically just stop functioning, or you could get a fluid leak, master cylinder could die, etc...

Now even if all those three items happened, what about your emergency break? I don't know about you, but mine is a nice little cable that bypasses any kind of hydrolics and squeezes those calipers.

So in order for this to happen all these different kind of systems would need to break at the same time.

I put better odds on me winning the lottery and I don't even play.

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[Xanlexian]

KITT

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Oh shit, my geek is showing...

--Xan

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[yo_tuco]

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