Unintended Acceleration -- While Parking

is this the same NASA that lost a Mars orbiter probe a few years ago because they had a contractor use English measurements while NASA expected metric? so much for NASA's QA/QC

I have felt my 2010 Prius get a subtle nudge while driving, kinda like someone gave me a sudden push or the engine got a shot of 93 octane gas.

 

You're unusually honest, Most people consider themselves to be 'slightly above average.' Just like everybody that goes to Vegas 'just about breaks even.'.

The answer to your question is when you respond or add a comment to a thread, it "bumps" it to the top of the stack of threads within that forum.

The more this topic gets bumped---the more it gets read....

 

In the real world there are always what-ifs.
What if a large rock crashes through the windshield...
What if a car runs a red light at an intersection...
What if the material of the on-board computer's storage medium is
defective...

Yes, and what is the likelihood of a what-if happening? Can you say
with certainty? A prudent person can protect themselves from the
effect of a what-if -- insurance, legal suit -- but not from the very
remote, statistically insignificant chance of the what-if occurring.

If in good conscience you can't accept a what-if, you should do your
utmost to avoid it:
If the what-if involves a particular car or make of car, get rid of it.
If the what-if involves the vagaries of driving, take the bus.

Our answers to the OP's questions -- which boil down to, "Why is the
Prius, not perfectly without fault, or even the unverified reports of
faults?" -- just lead to more subtle, nebulous, and speculative
what-ifs.

The OP apparently needs something this forum cannot provide; absolute
certainty.
Clearly, he/she should be looking somewhere else to satisfy their needs.

 

Please quit feeding the troll. You will only encourage him/her/it and in the end, the forum suffers.

Make your last post your last post to this troll. This will be mine.

-Brad

 

Well everyone is talking about unintended acceleration, ive found a website with a lot of instances of "intended acceleration". Its here PriusChat | Toyota Prius Forums, News, and Accessories

 

I say feed him.
His/Her arguments will stand or fall under the weight of their own merit.

Stifling discussion and debate is kinda contrary to what forums are all about---isn't it?

Definitions of troll on the Web:

• circulate, move around
• cause to move round and round; "The child trolled her hoop"
• sing the parts of (a round) in succession
• angle with a hook and line drawn through the water
• (Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
• a person who says or thinks anything the least bit negative about Toyota Priuses

etc....

 

Unintended = driver intended to perform a particular maneuver but did'nt.
Unexpected = driver expected something to happen but what was expected did'nt happen.
Sudden unintended= driver was surprised by what happened but what he intended did'nt happen
Sudden unexpected= driver was surprised that the expected did'nt happen


idiot= see definitions above

 

Why don't any of these unintended acceleration scenerios include the driver simply pulling the shift knob to the left and holding it there in neutral while applying the brakes ? They all seem to travel substantial distances and crash.

 

Just what sort of research are you doing? I hope it is something more than surfing the Internet from your home computer.

Tom

 

I really don't understand

A prius OWNER comes into this forum with legitimate questions about safety (what could be more important to discuss).

These safety concerns are being investigated currently by toyota, nasa and several other parties.

so you guys start calling them names ( troll, idiot etc)... and say that you feel sorry for the owner. I feel sorry for you and your need to name call. Also interesting that some of the people calling names call themselves names (redneck) skeptic etc, so perhaps name calling is all you can do?

back to topic please. some of us are intersted in the safety of these cars and a fact based discussion.

 

Well that could be because, A - You do not own a Prius ...Yet and B - You need to do a SEARCH and read up on this, there are MANY posts, not just this thread that addess this issue.

Well, in a word, YES. Some of us have taken the time to figure out the problem, we realise that while disconcerting "Lack of Braking", NOT UA is the problem. That can be overcome by, A - Allowing a little extra space to possibly compensate, and B - Hittng the brake hader and actually engage the pad to the disk or shoe to drum, depending on which model you have.
Not PANICKING, and "Modulating" the gas to stop would be a first good step.
Throwing a an uninfomed trollish attemt to moderate into the pot, just does not cut it! When you spend some time, A - with you Prius, (When you even get one) and B - Actually figuring what is going on, and realising that when you think it is happening to you, you can overcome this by just not mistakig the gas for the brake and just press the BRAKE pedal harder.YOU WILL STOP!!!

 

We did take the time to educate him on the various subjects but he has ignored us. That's what happens when someone goes trollish on us.

I am a researcher for a living and I can tell you you're not "doing research." A researcher takes all evidence into consideration. All you're doing is focusing on anecdotes ("Have you read the complaints?") and junk science that support your agenda and ignoring hard data, including Bob Wilson's (a poster you can search on this forum) data that there's no acceleration during the regen to friction transition post-Gen III brake campaign.

 

How do you explain the fact that virtually all models of cars have UA complaints, and many models have more complaints than the Prius?