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This isn't my story. It's my husbands, but I did hear about it the second he got home so that's close enough.
Back story, my husband just got a job at a rather upscale car dealership as a mechanic. He was thinking that he wouldn't have to deal with too many SCs, but this was not the case. These were the two best that he got to hear.
First story. An older man calls in to the dealership screaming that he almost died in one of their cars on the highway. Rather alarmed they ask him to come in immediately to figure out what happened. He comes in half an hour later screaming that while he was going down the highway his throttle somehow got stuck all the way open. This made it rather hard for him to stop and he was stuck going at the speed he had started at when his car started doing that. He claimed that he had been STANDING up in the cab putting all his weight on the brake pedal and nothing was happening. Eventually his car stopped after 3 hours of him stuck like this fearing for his life.
Now, normally I (and they) would have a lot of sympathy for the guy. His car was stuck going fast, he was stuck in the car. Scary stuff. However after an hour of this wouldn't any of us be thinking of ways to fix this? Hell after realizing the brakes weren't doing their job wouldn't any of us have been looking into different options then his "slam the brake to the floor and keep it there dammit!" thing? I know the first thing I threw out was "Why didn't he shift into neutral?" However the biggest nail in the coffin was that when they took the car into the shop to look over it they realized that the throttle wasn't stuck. In fact it never looked like it even had been stuck. Also the brakes were melted. Let me repeat that, MELTED. He had destroyed the brake pads and started to melt the solid metal rotors. And when they started to question when this happened, how if happened, did he hear anything, were any lights on, etc. His story changed from 3 hours of near death to an hour, then a few minutes then he just didn't want to talk about it anymore.
second story. A woman is coming home from work and pulls into her circular driveway. As she rounds the first corner she taps on the brake lightly and the car lurches forward somewhat. Fearing the worst she flings herself from the car and watches as it slowly rolls forward into the side of her house. Yet again the dealership gets a call about how she could have died and panic panic panic. This one was solved by looking at the cars online computer (the black box, if you will) and discovering that she had in fact tapped the gas ever so gently before throwing herself out of the moving vehicle. She was handed an invoice for how much it would take to fix her car and told that they were sorry about her house.
Back story, my husband just got a job at a rather upscale car dealership as a mechanic. He was thinking that he wouldn't have to deal with too many SCs, but this was not the case. These were the two best that he got to hear.
First story. An older man calls in to the dealership screaming that he almost died in one of their cars on the highway. Rather alarmed they ask him to come in immediately to figure out what happened. He comes in half an hour later screaming that while he was going down the highway his throttle somehow got stuck all the way open. This made it rather hard for him to stop and he was stuck going at the speed he had started at when his car started doing that. He claimed that he had been STANDING up in the cab putting all his weight on the brake pedal and nothing was happening. Eventually his car stopped after 3 hours of him stuck like this fearing for his life.
Now, normally I (and they) would have a lot of sympathy for the guy. His car was stuck going fast, he was stuck in the car. Scary stuff. However after an hour of this wouldn't any of us be thinking of ways to fix this? Hell after realizing the brakes weren't doing their job wouldn't any of us have been looking into different options then his "slam the brake to the floor and keep it there dammit!" thing? I know the first thing I threw out was "Why didn't he shift into neutral?" However the biggest nail in the coffin was that when they took the car into the shop to look over it they realized that the throttle wasn't stuck. In fact it never looked like it even had been stuck. Also the brakes were melted. Let me repeat that, MELTED. He had destroyed the brake pads and started to melt the solid metal rotors. And when they started to question when this happened, how if happened, did he hear anything, were any lights on, etc. His story changed from 3 hours of near death to an hour, then a few minutes then he just didn't want to talk about it anymore.
second story. A woman is coming home from work and pulls into her circular driveway. As she rounds the first corner she taps on the brake lightly and the car lurches forward somewhat. Fearing the worst she flings herself from the car and watches as it slowly rolls forward into the side of her house. Yet again the dealership gets a call about how she could have died and panic panic panic. This one was solved by looking at the cars online computer (the black box, if you will) and discovering that she had in fact tapped the gas ever so gently before throwing herself out of the moving vehicle. She was handed an invoice for how much it would take to fix her car and told that they were sorry about her house.
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