Re: Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop

Mar 09, 2010 1 Replies

Perhaps the Toyota owners manual should tell drivers what to do when their Toyota get out of control?


> - Why did the guy not press the stop/start button for 3 seconds? >
> 1) Panic. This points to the need to test drivers in situations which
> almost guarantee failure, especially after a certain age. Testing
> someone's signaling and parallel parking ability obviously proves nothing
> about how they'll handle terror.
>
> 2) At least 90% of drivers are not qualified to operate a spoon, much less
> a motor vehicle. Our testing procedures do nothing to filter out these > people.
>

Perhaps you should tell your wife to hide the box of wine for the remainder of this afternoon.

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