RE: "60 Minutes"

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

Agreed. I had my own "unintened acceleration" accident - and it was
because "driver's fault" too, only of different kind. The previous owner
of my car put a piece of carpet as an additional floor mat - I thought
it's weird, but didn't remove it either - my fault :-(((. I was driving
outside the city and decided to pass, so I pressed the gas pedal to the
floor to activate the kick down. The mat moved forward and _locked_ the
gas pedal at full throttle position. I wasn't fun, but I could bring the
car to the stop using the brakes with no real problems, and it was with
a dead bomb. I really can't imagine how one can confuse the brake pedal
with gas - the pedals have _way_ different feel even when wearing army
boots.

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Marion [SMTP:mmarion@optronics-intl.com]
> Sent:	Monday, January 05, 1998 10:53 PM
> To:	Josh Pinkert
> Cc:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Re: "60 Minutes"
> 
> "Brakes are several TIMES more powerful than the engine - if the brake
> was
> applied there is no way the car can move".  "In every case, the brakes
> were
> functioning normally but there were no skid marks nor reports of the
> brake
> lights being on!".  This was always met with blank stares and "its a
> killer
> car" kinda noises.
> 
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