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Old 11-04-2009, 02:49 PM   #14
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Oh ok. But the way it looks you meant like "Those guys are idiots. They should just throw it in neutral to get it to stop." You made it sound like that is a normal thing to do lol.
Nope not calling anyone idiots....Just sayin if my car kept accelerating and I couldn't prevent that, I would try anything (like putting it in neutral to prevent increasing speeds) rather than hit something at 100 mph.

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Well neutral would prevent any further increase in MPH. You'd still rev it up like crazy, which would most likely blow the engine. It seems the computer can differentiate between gears, it just doesn't know how much throttle is too much.
Exactly my point, and I'd rather blow the engine (which I stated) than get killed or kill someone.
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