Calling someone a "tard" is quite rude, but it's worse when you call someone names and come up with the wrong argument.
Shifting to neutral would've worked before computers take over some car's gearshifts - drivers have shifted out of "drive" into "neutral" and even "reverse" with no effect on the uncontrolled acceleration.
Hitting the brakes may or may not work - depending on how much brake assist (vacuum) is left. There was a case where investigators noted that the driver died in a crash with both legs firmly planted on the brake pedal.
There are many reasons that you get uncontrolled acceleration. In older cars, it's because the accelerator is stuck. Toyota had initially blamed the floor mat its initial recall, but then cases emerged where the uncontrolled acceleration happened in cars without floor mats.
In newer Toyota models, depressing the accelerator doesn't cause anything mechanical to happen (this simply means the pedal isn't connected to a lever that causes more gas to be fed into the engine). When you press the gas pedal, the computer tells the car to go faster. More and more people are inclined to think it's a software error where the computer tells the car to accelerate despite having no input from the gas pedal.
This will just attract poisonous cats to Australia! What next? Poisonous dogs? Then do we have to export Michael Vick there? When will it end, Aussies?
Shifting to neutral would've worked before computers take over some car's gearshifts - drivers have shifted out of "drive" into "neutral" and even "reverse" with no effect on the uncontrolled acceleration.
Hitting the brakes may or may not work - depending on how much brake assist (vacuum) is left. There was a case where investigators noted that the driver died in a crash with both legs firmly planted on the brake pedal.
There are many reasons that you get uncontrolled acceleration. In older cars, it's because the accelerator is stuck. Toyota had initially blamed the floor mat its initial recall, but then cases emerged where the uncontrolled acceleration happened in cars without floor mats.
In newer Toyota models, depressing the accelerator doesn't cause anything mechanical to happen (this simply means the pedal isn't connected to a lever that causes more gas to be fed into the engine). When you press the gas pedal, the computer tells the car to go faster. More and more people are inclined to think it's a software error where the computer tells the car to accelerate despite having no input from the gas pedal.
ROWR! RAAAAGGGEEEE!!!!1!1!ONE ;)