I noticed the Sykart headsock right away !!. C’mon down to Grand Prix Raceway in Lakewood.
Video was so funny, I’ll buy you a race !!
congrats man, someone finally said it. I said the same thing after i read about the first one happening.I loved it. Just an fyi, you probable made a tree hugger cry after hearing that.
I like it! Glad I don’t own a Prius though. Your resale probably sucks. I mean not only does this stupid pencil neck geek risk a CHP life, global warming is finally being shown to be a fallacy. Love your gratuitous use of the F-bomb. You must be a Fireman!
On another subject: I find it unfortunate that the main story here is the Toyota recall fiasco, and not how a brave LEO put his life on the line to save this Asshole!
I for one salute the CHP officer! Nice piece of driving! 
Way too much emphasis on ridiculing unprepared people in a totally unexpected, extremely tense and dangerous situation.
Juvenile horseshit better suited for TOS.
outstanding:D
i chuckled. Great job
Me and my wife saw this, and honestly… she swears to God above that I have a long lost brother… and you are him! I can be a brutally honest… and rude MF’er when I forget to force the political correctness filter into play.
You are a honest man, and if you hurt anyones feelings… they deserve it!
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i say the same shit everyday driving with the dumbasses on the I-64 autobahn here in WV…i’m getting ready to show my wife, she’ll lose it!!!
Haha great video!
Thanks man, I am glad most everyone gets it. I posted the link on the grizzly forum, and some dick reported it and it got pulled, unreal. :rolleyes:
350 hits in less than 12 hours, I hope it makes the rounds. Like I said, it is over the top, but I wanted it to be, to get my point across and make sure people do not forget. I read on MSN some old lady crashed today. I think these people are just doing it to make the news, I bet there is nothing wrong with their cars.
If juvenile horseshit keeps even one single person from getting in their car and killing a member of YOUR family, I’m all for it.
Anyone want to venture a guess on what percentage of these recent “Toyota victims” bothered to even take a cursory glance at their owner’s manuals? Much less actually read and understand it? I know I’m expecting too much, but cars can be deadlier than a new gun in untrained hands. Guns rarely kill more than one person per accident, you have to intentionally make that happen. Cars kill multiple persons per accident every single day, and almost none of those people were actually trying to hurt anybody.
We need to start reminding people in this country that there are some heavy resonsibilities that go with operating a motor vehicle. I’ve noticed that several of these “victims” managed to successfully make a phone call during their “terrifying ordeal.” If you can do that we can train you to stop a “runaway” car.
These Toyota problems are being lumped together by the media as if it’s just one problem, when there are at least 3 or 4 different causes for these UAs. No matter which cause we are talking about, they can all be stopped by the same basic procedures that everyone with a U.S. drivers license should know before they get behind the wheel of ANY vehicle.
Sorry for the rant, but this is personal.
Be safe. Be smart.
No buddy, the only thing unreal here is your inability to discern your extremely poor communication tactics. There is a better way, but you haven’t learned it yet. And at your age you seem a bit behind the curve.
Also, if I recall a police officer who also specialized in high-speed driving was the one in that well known 911 call who lost his life along with 3 innocent others in his family when his Toyota locked up.
Wow. How ironic that someone with the word “safety” in their screen name is more concerned with manners than something that could actually save a few lives. Sure the language is rough, sure it’s over the top, but it will make a few people think and maybe somebody will be better prepared if it happens to them. Not looking for a fight, just desperate to reach as many people as possible to keep them from going through this if possible.
Thanks again Gasitman.
Well, most disagree with you. I know I can not make everyone laugh. And lets talk about the CHP officer, I did not mention him in the video out of respect, but a LEO should know how to handle a situation like that. Not to mention he could of, not that he did, but could of thought to himself about making some money off the situation and it went horribly wrong. Just like people that burn their house down for insurance money, then find out their kid skipped school and died in the fire.
Again, not saying that is the case, but if you do not know how to put your car in neutral, or turn it off, you do not belong on the road. As far as the f-bombs, I did it purposely. Watch the last 5 seconds of the clip, I even joke about it.
You do not know me, and I am not like that. As someone mentioned, we think a drivers licence is a normal everyday thing, but it is something that poses a huge threat on others in the community. I have 3 family members that have been killed by idiots on the road, 2 drunks and one teenage girl texting. So do not even think for one second that driving a car is not a responsible act.
Besides, if I actually put it out and acted like some people that raise their kids, like sitting them down and discussing what they did with them, etc. “F” that, beat their ass, it is what my parents did, and I have managed to stay out of prison, jail, and away from drugs. I have 2 girls, both scholars in school, one even passed up to another grade, and not for one second would not not beat their ass if they started to smoke, do drugs or have sex at 13 and 15. Sometimes you have to get in peoples faces to make them understand.
You post and communicate well. Our friend could learn from you, at least on a verbal basis.
Regardless, the Toyota’s in question are stated to have an all electronic acceleration system, not the type normally used where there is some sort of physical connection involved when pushing the pedal down. I am not a mechanic, but I think I understand the physics referred to.
If this is the case (and I am not 100% positive it is), there is no way to know the state of the cars newly expanded electronic system when such a potential electronic error/errors occur. And I also find it extremely difficult to believe that the police officer did not attempt all of the OP’s actions, bit it is possible of course.
All I am saying is that there may be more to meets the eye here. Until all the facts are in, viscously lam-blasting the folks who have been unfortunate enough to have to deal with this seems a bit premature. And a few less f-bombs would have helped me make it through more than the first 45 seconds as well.
No hard feelings.
Sometimes if you give someone enough rope…
Now this just flat out pisses me off, and I am not an LEO. I will be banned if I go on so fuck it.
SafetyHit,
Just so ya know, most cars use (as in all recently that I am aware of) an electronic throttle. What confuses some folks into thinking that a cable is doing something is because some vehicles like my Dodge Cummins use a (TPS) Throttle Position Sensor mounted on the throttle peddle pivot itself and some like my Civic have a cable that goes to a TPS on top of the engine. On most gas cars there is a TPS under hood because a cable is still required to actuate a “throttle Body”, or a butterfly valve to open and close the air path prior to the intake manifold. But really, the use of “Drive by wire” has been in effect for years since the majority off all car and light truck engines use the muti point injection. Your foot has not been physically connected to a fuel supply (carb) since around 1988 when the TBI hit the streets.
It is not new to drive by wire when talking about fuel injection systems, but I am sure that each company has its unique way to modulate fuel delivery based on operator foot-peddle positioning.
An interesting thing to realize is that gas engines are throttled by air, if you limit or stop the air flow to the engine the computer will fuel accordingly… or cut fuel. In a diesel engine, they are a 180 degree opposite beast. They throttle on fuel. A car adds air supply and the fuel supply comes in to match the air qauntity, so by giving you a throttle body (butterfly valve after the air filter and before the intake plenum) you basically are controlling airflow and the CPU in the car reacts to your air supply inputs.
In a Diesel engine you apply fuel and this in turn demands more air, the air flow is increased after the fuel supply is increased. This makes a diesel dangerous in some conditions because a volitile atmosphere can cause a diesel engine to injest a source of fuel in the air and do what they call “run away” where you left the fuel peddle and cut what you thought was the fuel supply… only the engine is still accelerating with the combined fuel/air coming in from the engines intake system. Remember that unlike a car with a gas fired engine, a diesel requires no power to combust, no spark plugs needed! So if your diesel starts sucking any sort of fuel source, things get out of control real fast.
Many industrial diesels have a safety device installed similar to a throttle body to allow the operator to hit a switch and a trap door slams shut cutting off atmosphere from the intake side.
For a long while these were crude devices made by the equipment owners, but recently BD Diesel has begun to manufacture and market these safety systems for users. Imagine your Common Rail Dodge or your 6.4L ford getting a fuel or oil leak under the hood that is spraying near vaporized fuel or oil and filling the engine compartment. Your about to go on one hell of a thrill ride with nearly 1,000 FT/LBs of torque pushing you onward!
Take a look at this:
http://newsletters.bdincgroup.com/pas/runaway.html
Sorry for interjecting my crap, I just thought maybe one or two of you would find it interesting or enlightening to know
what was found in the CHP officers case was the dealer installed the incorrect floor mat of an RX400h into the ES350 loaner. Word on the street was the previous driver of that same loaner had an SUA, shifted to neutral, discovered it was the mat, fixed it, then told the dealer about it, but apparently it wasn’t done. Big no no on the dealer. Now combine this with a lack of training and you have a tragic situation. If the previous driver story is true then it was completely avoidable. Just a bad mixture of bad things. In this situation the beef lies with the dealer.
Funny video, loved it!
Safety, read what I wrote please, not what you want to read. I said it could be possible, not that it was. In-fact, my best friend is a sheriff and it was him, not me that first brought it up. I can see me and you will never see eye to eye, and that is fine. I did not jab the dead officer, people, and that includes LEO’s do stupid things, case in point the Pennsylvania officer that just got 18 months in prison for beating a handcuffed suspect in the back of his patrol car. So we should worship him because he is a police officer? How about the Chicago cop who beat up a 100 pound female bartender, wake up bud, your living in Wonderland with Alice.
And also, if it was found that the car was to blame that is great, however, he could of put the car in neutral, end of story.