excellent story

Here

I bet if that was the UK they would have still made him pay the fines for the speed cameras

[Edited on 7/10/04 by protofj]

I think the link is wrong

OOOPs - link corrected !

Wonder if you can try it to get round the M25 when your a bit late

Same story as the lorry driver in this country who claimed his lorry had a stuck accelerator.
Eventually after investigation and psychiatric reports, he was done for wasting police time. He was diagnosed as suffering Munchausen's syndrome.

Does that mean he was hungry all the time?

Latest news is Renault took the car for inspection and couldn't find any damage, including brakes. Now they are considering sueing the guy. I wouldn't like to be this guy no matter if he's telling the truth or not.


[Edited on 8/10/04 by Alez]

yeah.

I couldnt beleive how all the press could have taken that seriously.



just turn the f77king ignition off, I had to shout each time it got mentioned.

or take it out of gear!

Sometimes people can be so stupid!

atb

steve

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Originally posted by Rob Lane
Same story as the lorry driver in this country who claimed his lorry had a stuck accelerator.
Eventually after investigation and psychiatric reports, he was done for wasting police time. He was diagnosed as suffering Munchausen's syndrome.

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I think that the car was an automatic (can't get out of drive at over 50mph) and had a key card ignition (can be removed once the cars started?).

Correct me if I'm spouting!

Apparently, it's an automatic. Ignition is started by "authentication" through this card, then a start button (which is not actually the starting motor power but a kind of command, a digital push button which feeds a signal to a microcontroller). We've been discussing this in a different forum and it looks like it could be impossible to stop by PHYSICAL means should the car go mad (but they don't seem to do that anyway). In other words, the driver has no direct interface to the mechanics or electrics of the car at all, other than the steering wheel (next to go I suppose ).

This instance is one of many and is unavoidable in some circumstances as the mechanism controlling the accelerator is not physical it's electrical. Anyone heard of gas by wire?

Well - to add injury to this story. I'm working with a company designing the first "Steer By Wire" - yep you got it, no steering column!!! Just an electrical stepper motor connected to the steering wheel via wires to an encoder! Quite scary eh? Sleep well.....

[Edited on 8-10-04 by Hellfire]

automatics have neutral


modern ones will also go into neutral if put into reverse on the move.

ive tried it with a hire car in the interest of science


also, pulling out a renault key card DOESNT stop the engine. Om my wifes 03 megane, pulling out the card will not stop the engine and worse - it wont let you stop the engine by pressing the start button a second time. The card must be in to start / stop, but not during run.



atb

steve

[Edited on 8/10/04 by stephen_gusterson]

[Edited on 8/10/04 by stephen_gusterson]

i could believe many things about computers going bent, but for the brakes to stop too? thats just too much. 'pedal went soft' my arse...