Howdy,
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Doug Braun wrote:
> It would presumably work if you stopped QUIICKLY and COMPLETELY. But if
> slowed down to, say 30 MPH, and maintained that speed, you would have
> the engine in a low gear (assuming an automatic transmission) running at
> almost full power, with all of that power going into heating up the
> brakes. They would burn up real quickly.
>
> The fact that many cars are way over-powered
> doesn't make it any easier.
I'm sorry, but the only people I feel bad for if you've got a runaway
throttle stuck open and you slow down to 30 mph _and maintain it_ vs.
bringing the vehicle to a stop (against something if necessary) is the
innocent people that get caught up in it as Darwin fixes the real problem.
Mark
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