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Originally Posted by blueluvr
Djjase, please tell me something here as you seem to have the answers no one else can figure out.
Just how does the ignition switch AND the gear lever (both mechanical devices mind you) get physically locked out in this great freeway mystery? oh, and I almost forgot, makes itself better again right after the "event"
I don't want to hear some "oh it happens because modern cars are full of electrics" but a solid explanation how it is even possible this can happen to BOTH a mechanically operated switch, AND a mechanically operated gear lever. I put it to you now, that it is NOT possible for this to occur.
No one is arguing that the cuise control failed to turn off, or that possibly the throttle stuck on, nobody is arguing that point and that isn't my question.
I think 99.9% of the population, including those who know nothing about cars, can see that this particular incident is nothing more than a guy who had a problem in his car and basically pooped his pants. Fine, nothing wrong with being a little scared now and again, but why BS about it after the event. All credibility he might have had was lost when we heard him screaming like a 6 year old girl on a roller coaster. Those screams showed he was NOT in control of his senses, and emotion was running the show.
What scares me is the thought of what would happen if he had a REAL emergency........
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I have not once stated that turning off the keys or putting it in netural wasn't possible.
I said that I have driven a car - not a Ford Explorer - that didn't go into netural.
A lot of new cars, take those Toyota Prius Elec cars, they won't go from park to drive unless the brake pedal is pushed in, so maybe these don't allow you.
Like I said someone who has an Explorer can only answer that. My BA2 Turbo was a 6 speed manual and it always went into netural
I am not debating that they could have or might not have - I wasn't in that situation, nor anyone on this forum.
All I was stating that a guy in the US has proven that due to electrical issues those cars do throttle as though cruise control is stuck on.
My XA the key use to come out when you were driving, it wouldn't pass pink slip because of that.
All I was stating was facts from someone who has been looking into these types of issues that Ford has been having in the UK and the USA.