My Car over-accelerated today. Even the brakes didn't help.

[thundley4]

Ah-yup.  And considering that the cruise control, even through an onboard computer, is a "hard-wired" system and therefore only marginally susceptible to manipulation from random EM signals (that is to say, ain't ****in happening), it's roughly akin to your hitting the button for your garage door opener and miraculously changing the CD in your six-disc changer to the exact disc and song you wanted to hear.

 read somewhere today at over half of the unintended acceleration problems have happened to people over 60.

[NHSparky]

read somewhere today at over half of the unintended acceleration problems have happened to people over 60.

And the other half happen to DUmmies named Pam in front of laundromats.

[DumbAss Tanker]

read somewhere today at over half of the unintended acceleration problems have happened to people over 60.

However that same description does fit every Prius driver around here.

I dunno, I'm keeping an open mind on the possibility of unforeseen external causes in a total drive-by-wire throttle control, the "It couldn't possibly be THAT, because I'm an engineer and I said so" mentality killed a good number of F16 pilots back in the day because of misplaced faith in the integrity of the bird's wiring harness.

[GOBUCKS]

And the other half happen to DUmmies named Pam in front of laundromats.

Is that the same as a laundry  mat?

[zeitgeist]

 I can see this as much more likely to happen to Primitives than an over acceleration problems.

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/#ixzz0iYiLRxHD

But Stud-muffin, I thought you paid the Prius payment

[AllosaursRus]

Now that's funny!

But whether your car is tuned up by M, Q, or bobbolink, why would they remove the floor mats to do it?
What a tangled web we weave.

If it's anything like the POS Dodge van I had, everything had to be done from inside the passenger compartment.

The floor mats wrapped around the dog house.

[AllosaursRus]

ET's are un-usually interesting breed.  If there are any resident on board I suspect you will receive a great theoretical answer.  Me, I only know something in my neighborhood is now preventing my key-less locking system from working. It did work and works once out of the neighborhood. I currently have a call in to the dealer to find out the frequency the remote transmits on.

Now this is no $hit, my last occurence with sudden acceleration was when a Turbo Jag sedan pulled up to the lights, goosed his throttle a couple times somehow causing a sudden unexplained spasam in my right leg which then impact the accelerator pedel (which is connected to a wireless fuel delivery system).  The better half often says my car is "pi$$ yer pants fast", she's right. Wasn't even close. The guy wanted to go again for pinks but I don't have room for another car.


 

Heh, ya could always sell the thing! What the hell ya drivin? I had a '53 Ford F100 we hotrodded in the early ninety's. Would turn mid 11's. Fastest thing stop light to stop light I ever drove! Had a 289 Cobra, w/Ram air under the hood. Only problem was it still had the original drum brakes. Ya had to be damn careful to leave enough room between you and the car in front of you just in case he/she/it, slammed on the brakes! Scared the hell out of me several times! 'Specially when some knucklehead would cut me off in order to make a turn when they weren't payin' attention to what lane they needed to be in!

[zeitgeist]

Heh, ya could always sell the thing! What the hell ya drivin? I had a '53 Ford F100 we hotrodded in the early ninety's. Would turn mid 11's. Fastest thing stop light to stop light I ever drove! Had a 289 Cobra, w/Ram air under the hood. Only problem was it still had the original drum brakes. Ya had to be damn careful to leave enough room between you and the car in front of you just in case he/she/it, slammed on the brakes! Scared the hell out of me several times! 'Specially when some knucklehead would cut me off in order to make a turn when they weren't payin' attention to what lane they needed to be in!

    Now why didn't I think of that?  My current driver is an older MB 320Sl.  

Couple years ago I got cut off by an arsewhole one day driving my '68 'Cuda.  Blew the right front wheel cylinder when I jumped on the binders. The verbal barrage I launched at the offender would have made a sailor blanch.  
 ( The 'Cuda still has all four wheel factory 9" drum brakes and the stock /6 , but it looks fast ).  

[PatriotGame]

Yes, it's electromagnetic interference causing a scam artist's brain to think about getting a jumbo out-of-court settlement from Toyota. Odds are overwhelming that's the cause of all these Toyota incidents. The discouraging thing is that thousands of scamsters will be successful at cashing in. It's much more expensive for Toyota to defend themselves than to just settle with these crooks.

While I fully agree that all of this Toyota shit IS a scam, back in the late 80's when anti-lock brakes were first introduced for the Corvette, some garage door openers would interfere with them!
You pull your `Vette into your driveway, hit the garage door opener remote, and the anti-lock brakes would engage. Seems the first revisions of those systems on the Corvette used some type of RF (Radio Frequency) based sensors to monitor wheel rotation.

[JLO]

Okay, time to bitch again.

Why did the primitive light this campfire in "General Discussion," instead of in the automotive forum that my fellow alum Skins has so magnanimously gifted the primitives for discussion of automotive issues?

Where is that automotive forum hidden?  I've not seen it.

[Gwitness]

well...with more than 20 years of professionally turning wrenches...I believe something is going on with Toyotas DBW system..it has been a problem since 02 when it was introduced  [a few TSB's were issued by Toyota].     I don't believe it is a mechanical issue...and may be a computer issue.  But...God forbid an engineer admit he is wrong or missed something.

[JLO]

well...with more than 20 years of professionally turning wrenches...I believe something is going on with Toyotas DBW system..it has been a problem since 02 when it was introduced  [a few TSB's were issued by Toyota].     I don't believe it is a mechanical issue...and may be a computer issue.  But...God forbid an engineer admit he is wrong or missed something.

Bingo!