This piece is a SCARRY - read

Read below, if you have a Toyota travelling over 100mph, your brake may fail and you are in danger:

"The ES 350 and most other modern vehicles are equipped with power-assisted brakes, which operate by drawing vacuum power from the engine. But when an engine opens to full throttle, the vacuum drops, and after one or two pumps of the brake pedal the power assist feature disappears.

As a result, a driver would have to apply enormous pressure to the brake pedal to stop the car, and if the throttle was wide open might not be able to stop it at all, safety experts say.

"I don't think you can stop a car going 120 mph and an engine at full throttle without power assist," said Ditlow, the safety center director.

Indeed, a 2007 study by federal highway safety officials showed that braking distance and force on a Lexus ES 350 increased fivefold when the throttle was wide open. And evidence introduced in sudden acceleration trials suggests that it can take up to 225 pounds of pressure on a brake pedal to arrest a runaway vehicle, far more than most drivers can muster from a seated position, said Edgar "Hike" Heiskell, a Charleston, W.Va., attorney who is suing Toyota over a fatal acceleration accident in Flint, Mich.

Lyons acknowledged that the vacuum can be depleted when an engine throttle is wide open, leaving the drivers without power-assisted brakes.

"There's a [federal] standard where you have to be able to stop the car without power-assisted brakes, but obviously I don't think it includes situations where the throttle is wide open," he added.

Drivers in other crashes also found it difficult to rein in a runaway Toyota. Guadalupe Gomez of Redwood City said he was held hostage for 20 miles on a Bay Area freeway by a 2007Camry traveling more than 100 mph.

Gomez was unable to turn off the engine or shift into neutral and then burned out his brakes before slamming into another car and killing that driver, said attorney Louis Franecke, who represented that victim's family."

所有跟帖： 

• 就怕這，幾乎所有其他車都是如此。還好，我膽小從不開快 -用戶名被占用了- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2009 postreply 17:04:28

• It didn't say 幾乎所有其他車都是如此... -internuts- ♂ (281 bytes) () 10/28/2009 postreply 17:57:57

• 請教各位老大----開這麽快車，不是找死嗎？！ -gyjca- ♂ (295 bytes) () 10/28/2009 postreply 17:30:26

• 說是地毯夾死了油門導致不斷加速。另一可能是高速超車後刹不下來 -用戶名被占用了- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2009 postreply 17:50:37

• The problem is "sudden acceleration" and failed braking... -internuts- ♂ (274 bytes) () 10/28/2009 postreply 18:04:44

• agree. 寧讓三分慢，不搶一秒快。 -用戶名被占用了- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/28/2009 postreply 18:09:52

• "寧讓三分，不搶一秒"這句話一定要記住！ -1800800- ♂ (150 bytes) () 10/28/2009 postreply 19:12:40