XPost: alt.autos.toyota.camry, alt.autos.toyota, alt.autos.lexus   
   XPost: rec.autos.tech   
   From: Trueno@e86.GTS   
      
   On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:46:06 -0600, Don Stauffer wrote:   
      
   > Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:   
   >> A 68 year old woman ran her car through a brick and steel wall, into a   
   >> laundromat, and damaged the wall and 5 or 6 washing machines, you know,   
   >> the big industrial ones...   
   >>   
   >> She was sneaking up on a parking space when all of a sudden the car   
   >> accelerated and crashed through the wall and the washing machines.   
   >>   
   >> She was driving a Camry. The accident has been attributed by the media to   
   >> a 'sticking accelerator'.   
   >>   
   >> Um, how FAST are you driving when pulling into a parking space? Fast   
   >> enough to crash through a brick wall?   
   >>   
   >   
   > I noticed this too.  Sticking throttle would not account for   
   > acceleration.  Maintaining speed when you slow down, sure, but not rapid   
   > unintended acceleration.   
   >   
   > I have had three cars that have had sticking accelerators (well, two   
   > sticking and one failure of the carb return spring).  Two were stick   
   > shift, easy enough to react to, it is almost instinctive to declutch.   
   > Now that both of our cars are automatic, we'll see how I react the next   
   > time it happens :-(   
      
      
   Slap it into neutral. NTHSA and Toyota both say, "Let the engine rev until   
   safe to turn it off."   
      
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