So how does that happen with dual circuit brakes?Truth or not, can brakes can fail, no matter how the car is fuelled.
Wow. I've never tested this function but the sales person assured me it would only travel a few hundred yards. So very stealable then if the thief has a a garage to conceal in within 15 miles. Not good.Throwing your car key out of the window would not have stopped the car - I drove 15 miles while my car key was left at home.
If they do, just use the tracking function on the app to locate the garage, hit the lock button to make it honk the horn and call in the bacon.Wow. I've never tested this function but the sales person assured me it would only travel a few hundred yards. So very stealable then if the thief has a a garage to conceal in within 15 miles. Not good.
This sounds more like itThis happened to myself in the MG4, in that (in my case), the carmat managed to find itself behind the brake peddle, but infront of the accelerator peddle, so light braking caused the car to accelerate, but heavy braking caused the car to slow, but it took a minute (i was on the motorway at 70mph) to work out what was happening.
EDIT: I was in cruise control - middle lane at 65mph?, and normally just tap on the brake peddle to disengage ACC, but it caused the car to go faster!
Just to reassure you ( or may be not ) it is this way on a lot of cars with this type of keyless system.Wow. I've never tested this function but the sales person assured me it would only travel a few hundred yards. So very stealable then if the thief has a a garage to conceal in within 15 miles. Not good.
Why would they take the risk of being kidnapped in the first place?Just to reassure you ( or may be not ) it is this way on a lot of cars with this type of keyless system.
Once the car has detected the presence of the key and is operational, the key can be removed from the car.
In theory you car drive where you like.
However, once the car is shut down / turned off or stalled ( in the case of a ICE ) then it will not restart again, without gaining the presence of the key !.
Throwing your car key out of the window would not have stopped the car - I drove 15 miles while my car key was left at home.
Wow. I've never tested this function but the sales person assured me it would only travel a few hundred yards. So very stealable then if the thief has a a garage to conceal in within 15 miles. Not good.
This happened to myself in the MG4, in that (in my case), the carmat managed to find itself behind the brake peddle, but infront of the accelerator peddle, so light braking caused the car to accelerate, but heavy braking caused the car to slow, but it took a minute (i was on the motorway at 70mph) to work out what was happening.
EDIT: I was in cruise control - middle lane at 65mph?, and normally just tap on the brake peddle to disengage ACC, but it caused the car to go faster!
This sort of thing has been reported lots of times before across various makes - almost always turns out to be some other factor, like a car mat or something the driver is doing.
Reminds me a lot of these examples:
Sudden unintended acceleration - Wikipedia
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that! I've also seen the Farcebook threads, and it's now been reported by a number of sources - however I actually used to know this guy about 15 years ago, and back then he had a reputation for bizarre and extreme tall stories. It was like he lived in some sort of fantasy world or told these stories for attention, then later would take great pleasure in telling people it was all just a big joke.Its almost certainly a fantasist looking for clicks. He's got form for it, this "type of thing" seems to happen to him regularly!
Its just made up rubbish, but the car in one of the pictures is a ZS EV
If it looks like a duck, waggles like a duck and quacks like a duck in all probability it is a duck. There are so many holes in this story, probably a lot of them due to sensualisation by the media, it makes it difficult to believe. On first reading you get the impression it was at high speed that this terrifying event occurred, the truth being 15 mph. IF it was 15mph simply keep going round a roundabout until the battery runs out or drive it into a solid object.I am amazed, surprised and disappointed at the scepticism shown by most of the posts on this story.
Theres the first issue, you are right the electronics can have an effect on hydraulic pressure in the brake lines BUT only by way of releasing a little or increasing a little for the ABS function and they always have a fail safe system. At no time can it dump all of the hydraulic pressure which allow the pedal to go to the floor and have no brakes situation.It is obvious that there is a computerised system that affects the working of the hydraulic brakes on the ZS. This system operates all the time when in ACC when approaching the rear of another car, or going down a hill. Therefore such a system can affect the oil pressure within the hydraulic brake system and it is conceivable that if it goes wrong, it could not allow the pressure in the system to increase -thus brake failure.
Thats rubbish, the ACC is cancelled by electrical switch on the pedal not by hydraulic pressure. You surely must be able to reduce the speed set or cancelAND if no pressure in the brake system, there is no way to cancel the ACC, so the car keeps running at set speed.
Highly unlikelyThe whole thing is entirely plausible
Exactly why they dont design brake systems this way.and is the end result of any system that is allowed to interfere with a hydraulic braking system