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Cruise control stuck on, heading towards downtown Huntsville at 60mph!

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Whoozyerdaddy said:
Every cruise control I've ever had would disengage if you stepped on the gas.
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The cruise on my last two cars will only stop if I use the brakes or turn it off at the stalk. Accelerating even more than 5 mph and then coasting back and it will stay on at the preset speed.
 
I can't believe the OP turned an interesting news story into some horrific anti-American rant of the term "emergency brake." Five pages of this shit. I thought it might have been a language difference but he's from the UK. Christ.
 
Whoozyerdaddy said:
Every cruise control I've ever had would disengage if you stepped on the gas.
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That's odd as every cruise control car I've ever had would let you accelerate and then when you let off the gas it would slow back down to where you set the cruise. It would never disengage unless I turned it off or hit the brakes.
 
HAL9000 said:
Cheers, that's odd, I've never seen or heard of that before, cars in the UK all have pretty much the same lay out... most are manual, all of them have a gear stick and a hand brake. I was so confused when I got in an american car with an indicator-like-stalk that changes gear!
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column shifts were common in cars that had a bench front seat.
 
sygyzy said:
I can't believe the OP turned an interesting news story into some horrific anti-American rant of the term "emergency brake." Five pages of this shit. I thought it might have been a language difference but he's from the UK. Christ.
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I certainly can.
 
Numenorean said:
That's odd as every cruise control car I've ever had would let you accelerate and then when you let off the gas it would slow back down to where you set the cruise. It would never disengage unless I turned it off or hit the brakes.
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this. i'm pretty sure this is standard behavior for cruise controls.

that said, like everyone else has stated, he could have just put it in neutral, slowly start applying the e-brake...
 
Alone said:
Yup. He probably just didn't know how to use cruise control.
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He had to have at least hit the brake, which would've disabled it. I don't get why the column shifter can't get to neutral though.

BTW, whoever said hitting the gas kills the cruise, that's not true in my experience - accelerating doesn't turn off the cruise.. it lets you accelerate and when you let off it still maintains the cruise-set speed.

Aikouka said:
How much sense does it make when "hand brakes" are used by your foot in most automatic cars? 😛

I either call it an e-brake or a parking brake.
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I have an electronic parking brake.. it's a little tab I pull up and it engages the cable. I wouldn't be able to decide how much force is used to apply it if my regular brakes ever went out. Because it is electronic, it's probably programmed not to even engage while above a certain speed.

All this said, and with all the electronics in vehicles, I'm scared to use the cruise for fear of a glitch like this.
 
HAL9000 said:
1) It wouldn't work at any speed
2) It would lock up the wheels and you'd just skid
3) If you were turning the wheel you'd spin
4) You'd probably snap the cable
5) You wouldn't gradually come to a halt.
6) You could slow down more effectively by changing into neutral and letting the car slow down naturally.
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Wrong, wrong and wrong. Why do you assume these things? Just try them out in person.

I was going 40-50mph in a dirt road (mazda 6 2003) and hard pulled the E-brake, the wheels locked up but it was rather very gradual.

If you are driving in residential area at about 15-20mph, do a hard pull, your car GENTLY comes to a halt.
 
sygyzy said:
I can't believe the OP turned an interesting news story into some horrific anti-American rant of the term "emergency brake." Five pages of this shit. I thought it might have been a language difference but he's from the UK. Christ.
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You haven't seen a HAL thread before then have you? Lucky you... this is ALL he does. Every fucking thread is "oh well in the UK it's this blah blah blah". He's even been banned for it. Doesn't matter, slap on the wrist and he's right back in action.
 
Saw it on morning show getting ready today. They had a re-enactment and some footage from the cop cars. Said he hit brakes, cruise button and tried to turn the key off and nothing worked. Apparently the cop got in front of him once and slowed down and it didnt work, then tried again and magic. Of course the second time there was a pickup truck stopped at a red light so if it didnt work the cop would have been sandwiched or had to speed off.
 
CZroe said:
Dude, you typed "break" a million effing times. HAL did too but at least he typed it right a few times. FWIW, transposing whole words is a bit more than a typo.
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yes indeed. I realized that I was typing break at some point, went back and fixed a few posts (some had already been quoted though).
had no idea how early on I was using it, haha.

braeks is an attempt at the correct spelling, one can see, with a legit typo.

i tend to type faster than I think these days, and juxtapose words all the time. posts were coming into this thread every 10 seconds or so, so I wasn't spending as much time as I usually do with checking my typing.
 
pontifex said:
yep, mine too
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same here. I tend to remember two settings--Cruise and Resume? if you tap resume, you can accelerate to a new a new cruise and it resets.

something like that. I don't do as much LD driving with my new-ish car, though, so I've had few chances to use it.
 
sygyzy said:
I can't believe the OP turned an interesting news story into some horrific anti-American rant of the term "emergency brake." Five pages of this shit. I thought it might have been a language difference but he's from the UK. Christ.
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welcome to a neckbeard thread.
 
Hate to break it to you guys, but unless you have rear drum brakes you don't have an "emergency" brake.

Rear disc's have small brake shoes inside the hat that is relatively small diameter for actual braking use, they're intending as parking brakes. Can you use it in an emergency? Sure, it's worth a shot since it is an emergency after all, but don't be surprised if they disintegrate before you come to a stop though, which is even more likely if the engine is still seeing throttle. It's not like older stuff that had rear drums where there was just a secondary mechanical linkage to apply the actual brakes meant to stop the vehicle.

And no, I didn't read all 5 pages of the thread.
 
IcePickFreak said:
Hate to break it to you guys, but unless you have rear drum brakes you don't have an "emergency" brake.

Rear disc's have small brake shoes inside the hat that is relatively small diameter for actual braking use, they're intending as parking brakes. Can you use it in an emergency? Sure, it's worth a shot since it is an emergency after all, but don't be surprised if they disintegrate before you come to a stop though, which is even more likely if the engine is still seeing throttle. It's not like older stuff that had rear drums where there was just a secondary mechanical linkage to apply the actual brakes meant to stop the vehicle.

And no, I didn't read all 5 pages of the thread.
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yup

with rear drums the cable actually actuates the rear brakes, but not with disc's.
 
HAL9000 said:
1) It wouldn't work at any speed
2) It would lock up the wheels and you'd just skid
3) If you were turning the wheel you'd spin
4) You'd probably snap the cable
5) You wouldn't gradually come to a halt.
6) You could slow down more effectively by changing into neutral and letting the car slow down naturally.
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Nevermind, I was apparently wrong.
 
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It's called an emergency brake because it can be used in emergency situations. No it will not stop you instantly like hydraulic brakes, but if the choice is slowing down slowly or crashing directly into a pole or a wall, I will choose to slow down. Of course there is a chance you will spin if your wheels are turned slightly, but again, I would rather that than crash directly into something. And if you snap the cable than you're doing it wrong.
 
Oh any my experience with CC is the same as others. I can accelerate as much as I want, then when I let my foot off the accelerator the speed will gradually drop down to where the CC was set.
 
jackofalltrades said:
The auxillary brake is just to keep the car from rolling in a parked condition it only activates one brake shoe not 8 like when you hit your hydraulic brakes. This brake will not stop a vehicle if the throttle is pressed or if the cc is stuck. I believe the driver panicked and never thought to turn the car off, that would have solved the problem no matter what. Because the cc isn't even on the same circuit as the ignition, so if the cruise control did really fail or the throttle just stuck(more likley option) then the car would have stopped.
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Depends on the vehicle - my Forester's parking brake is a drum inside of the rear (disc) brake setup. On the MR2, it actuates both rear disc brakes.
 
The statements of the teenage driver do not make sense.

1) He could have turned off the cruise control
2) He could have turned off the ignition
3) He could have shifted into neutral

Here are some other possibilities which ‘could’ be fact.

A teenage boy wanting publicity? Showing off in front of his girlfriend? Looking for a way
to avoid a summer school final exam? Trying to avoid his third speeding ticket by claiming a run-away vehicle? I could go on and on with possible excuses.
 
Well this thread took off while I was out...

Still don't get it, I agree with everyone else, this guy must have been able to turn his ignition off...
 
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