VinylToVideo you would be surprised how many people don't know where neutral is. I have had people tell me "oh my car doesn't have that " and they give me a list of reasons like cause it's an automatic or it's just to new .
Well, where do you think the first sentence leads to? in france and spain, more than 60% of the people that have cars drive like a fucking junk high on meth and morphine, they dont use blinkers, dont use night lights, don't know how to use roundabouts, don't know how to go and when to stop ( tipical ecounter, the guy that goes out of the supermarket and throws itself onto trafic, no blinker, no stop) in france most of the time they make fucking train accidents, they drive so fucking fast, and so damn close to each one that i don't know how they are all not dead by now, the overspeed 90% of the time, tailgate each one non stop(literally nonstop), they overpass on straigt line(don't know how you call it, the center line is full, not stripped)... so if in theese 2 places(suposedly first world in health care and any BS more) they drive like indians, but less populated. i don't see what is the reason that there where you are people don't know where neutral is on a car, im taking france and spain because is where i have lived most, and i have seen some big ass shit happen, at least your side only doesn't know where neutral is.( sorry for the long text, here's a face. (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ)
I'm one of those people who doesn't see the appeal of automatic transmissions, even today.. but I enjoy driving and apparently have sufficient coordination to steer, shift and operate one or more of the three pedals on my vehicles. But seeing videos like these (was watching runaway diesel videos); I wonder what the "how to stop a runaway self-driving car" videos are going to instruct people to do when self-driving cars really become a thing.
Once self-driving cars will be properly implemented (which will take many many years), no cars with combustion engines will be sold anymore. It'll all be electric. So that problem will never really exist in the first place.
@@Aomicplane How does changing the drivetrain to all-electric magically do away with the possibility of runaway cars? It would do the opposite of help in a runaway scenario (think about the torque)... Additionally, self-driving cars have the potential to make things worse. If a software glitch, hardware malfunction, or someone hacks what will likely be an Internet connected as well as mesh networked vehicle, you'll have other things to worry about besides sudden acceleration. With pretty much everything being "drive-by-wire", good luck getting a runway self-driving EV under control. Even if you have say, a mechanical emergency brake, unless there's a breaker to cut the power to the drive motors on your dash, center console, or wired into the e-brake lever\pedal, the torque those electric motors can produce will overpower your emergency brake easily.. and that's if your car doesn't drive you into a barrier or something else if the self-driving components freak out. Oh wait, you're made a joke right? Since the EV will exhaust its battery pack before anything bad happens. =p
@@builderbasti9773 The kill-switch would have to be mechanical, and not software driven in any way. Additionally, you'd still need to supply power to the brake booster and power steering if using a steer-by-wire and\or brake-by-wire system. So, this would necessitate keeping steering and braking on the 12-volt system and isolated from the main drive battery (I'm assuming they are driven by the 12-volt system currently). Other can-of-worms issues with self-driving capabilities and a kill-switch engaged event, etc. Main issue would be the application of the current day "we'll solve that in software" approach people have been taking... sometimes, especially when dealing with a failsafe, the good old mechanical approach is the best approach provided it's done right.
The more difficult models to stop are old automatics that only have a front-pump on the transmission. On level roads these work just fine but if one descends a steep hill with not much fuel in the tank all hell can break loose. The fuel runs to the front of the tank, away from the pick up point so the engine quits. Power steering is lost as soon as the engine stops turning. Power braking ceases after two or three presses of the brake pedal. In the case of the Ford Granada 2.8 automatic built in Cologne, one now has about two tons of car to try to control. One can set the parking brake to as hard as it will go then try pressing the foot brake with all ones strength. Pulling on the steering wheel and using two feet on the brake pedal should prevent the car from going any faster. Once level ground is reached the car will stop as there is now no "mg sin alpha" pushing it along. Once on the level the car will start OK and all systems will now work again. If any crash victim says "The brakes failed" but afterwards the brakes are found to be perfect it is quite possible that they are telling the truth.
Once we put our car on neutral by mistake while driving 190km/h on Autobahn putting it back into drive caused an electronic failure and we had to move over 4 lanes to the right stopping on the service lane. So try it slower and dont do it by mistake :)
Don't buy automatics, that's the Thing :D Putting it in Neutral becomes obvious when you have to shift yourself, then you can just slam in 6Th and stall it :P
Good video. Not sure why you included the last bit though. If the car is running away, the system that allows the brakes to override the accelerator likely will not work. Shifting to neutral and braking is the best course of action in this situation for all cars.
Are brakes on cars for the american market so weak? As far as I know heren in Germany brakes have to be strong enough to stop the car under all circumstances.
doesn't really matter, the cars are often made to just meet the regulations of a specific country. For example many cars that are made for the indian market have much less safety features compared to the european versions. smaller brakes, no airbags, etc...
Quarter throttle in my camaro overpowers my brakes but I have a lot more power than stock with stock 1980's disc brakes, kind of scary when I had the throttle stick this summer but I'm not retarded so I just turned it off.
Ummm please don't slam your breaks if this happens to you in a highway... you just put the car in neutral, then stop in a SAFE PLACE, then turn off the car. Or if the car's on a runway and it's a diesel, you just get the fuck outta there
the majority of cars in germany are manual aswell, where such a thing is easily mitigated, the car cant lock you out of neutral as well its a linkage shifting the transmission directly.
My first thought without even seeing the video, is SHIFT TO NEUTRAL. Let me guess, that is what the man said? How do people not know this? Shifting to neutral ceases the power from the engine to the wheels.
"just buy manual". I would love too but i have arthritis in my left knee so i cant really drive stick. Besides the morning and afternoon rush hour is horrible.
On my car the brakes would win easily over the accelerator. I have found though the loss of power braking when accelerator is down. One of the problems is automatics shifting into a lower gear as you slow down under load making it harder to stop. The gearbox just assumed you came to a hill if you are mashing the pedal at low speed. I think unless I had 1000 horsepower in my Citroen c2 it would stop okay.
this trick will not work with diesels as they will draw oil from the sump and will not shut down even with ignition off. The only way is to aim a fire extinguisher up the air intake which will deprive it of the all important oxygen needed for combustion. Carry one in the boot (or trunk lol)
This is targetted towards automatic transmission petrol vehicles (which i've never heard of running away, but that's besides the point). Additionally, if you drive a manual or diesel vehicle you likely know what to do in those cases anyways.
i think they mean when the throttle valve gets somehow stuck. it doesn't really run away but is under throttle the whole time and because they use torgue coverters brakes can't stop the engine even should the car stop. and a proper driver knows what to do like in a runaway diesel you either put it in last gear and dump the clutch or when youre in an auto put it in neutral and run
in a manual car depress the clutch apply the brake bring the vehicle to a stop. . Then put it in the highest gear you can then dump the clutch. Should stall it if not handbrake and call the fire brigade ..
A few years ago, we had a situation like this in Australia, where a Ford Exploder ran away on the highway. I'm no expert on these particular vehicles, but it was reported that he couldn't select neutral while the vehicle was moving, it apparently has some form of lockout? www.smh.com.au/national/no-fault-in-cruisecontrol-terror-car-20100107-lwdd.html
Here where i live automatic transmissions are kind off rare, not because we don't have the money for it, but because most of the people here want to have as much control over their car as possible, so the only times you see an automat, its either a handicapped person [an amputee for example] or when someone is rich and a bad driver - because automats are more expensive and less common here. So if you walk into a pub here, and you start a conversation about cars, and someone says he has automatic transmission, he's gonna probably be made fun off, unless he has a good reason - he's an amputee ect.
I'm guessing you don't live in a city with a traffic problem. Where I live people are starting to drive more and more automatic because there is a bad traffic problem. Driving a manual in slow moving stop-and-go traffic is not fun. You are using the clutch and the low gears way too much for it to be fun.
lol, and those cummins 8liter diesels etc. are clean as fuck??? It is all about the money, not a fucking earth saving clean cars. Americans love to sue someone...
I've got hypothesis about the whole VW thing. In USA, emissions are regulated on a by-volume basis. Your car can emit less CO than any other car on the road, but if its bad-gas percentage by volume exceeds a set value, it will not pass emissions control. So if you have a giant truck and it pollutes a lot of mass, it could be as much as 10 honda civics, but if that mass is within the acceptable volume percentage , you're good to motor on. In Germany, the polluting gas controls are set on a mass basis per class of car. This is better for the world, makes more sense in terms of net mass pollution. So I bet VW along with similar imports all tweaked their computers to appear compliant with america's dumb-as-fuck emissions rules. The by-volume regulation may be better for economy though, or at least for short term business.
XPACT It’s nice but it is isn’t hard so these people need to stop babying My mother is the same and she drove a Honda Civic CR-X once that my uncle owned and she said the steering was *really heavy and impossible to steer* and didn’t want to drive it. So much babying it’s just insane how we grow weaker over the years.
yes many cars ecu picks up from the brake pedal switch then cancels the throttle request, but this video is just showing how to stop a car and sorry if you dont know how to stop erm... dont drive erm get the bus, lose some weight and walk, if your gonna make a consumer video show a video showing a true runaway, fill up a tdi intercooler with warm oil and go for a drive, then you'll know what a runaway is
if a powerful turbo-diesel has a runaway accidentally; there is almost no chance to stop it securely. Very old diesel engines used to have a decompression valve on the cylinder_head(s). it seems more and more relevant, that decompression_valves be reintroduced in those complicated modern engines.
as long as it is a manual you are fine. just stop brake top gear and dump the clutch. if it is automatic put into neutral, stop and either run away or choke the intake.
Im sorry, but if the brakes arent strong enough to bring the car to a stop even under full throttle they are simply to weak. They checked this in Germany even with a 620hp Porsche GT2 in first gear, and the engine stand no chance of winning the fight against the brakes
If diesel run away u won't turn it off because it burn oil of the engine Its self ignition even if u pull out the Key best way in manuals is to shift highest gear hold brake and let the clutch
Do-You-Claim that brakes don't overrun engine power? Just standard family SUV has braking power over 300bhp, not to mention sports cars brakes. You can stall engine just by braking, never mind the neutral.
you do know power steering disengages at speed, right? lol it would be no harder to turn the wheel with the engine off at speed. I'm not sure this guy knows what he's talking about
Disengaging at speed, well...depends... newer cars have electric power steering that is variable, older power steering is always active because it uses hydraulics, but in both cases at speed it's easy to turn the wheel even without power steering. Its only purpose now is to allow women to park their cars hehe But seriously in many of these videos they talk about loss of power steering like certain death will occur... but people drove their cars for decades without it.
XPACT actually, most cars since around the 90's have had a valve in the power steering pump to reduce the pressure at speed, same thing with the electric systems, just it's done in programming so it reduces at speed
Erm, now come on, I dont even drive, never drove a car... but sure as hell know where neutral is! Surely nobody is that thick as to get confused where neutral is on an automatic or manual.
For this to happen to a car with a Throttle cable is very very Rare, but new cars with a throttle solenoid control by a computer this can happen easily if it shorts out or fails.
Lol! Clutch and brake until stop the car. Put it in the highest posssible gear and quickly release clutch. This will cause the enging to stall. Easy. "It could be hard to find neutral" Americans.
All the advices are WRONG!!! The only one right way in such situation: just call your mom or grand and ask for advice, alternatively just write them SMS :)
Michael User If you feel that texting your mother at 200kph is the way to go, you better be texting her a nice and short goodbye. Following this guy's advice gets you dropped into a casket.
It is better to call 911 because they will record it and then someone will post it here on RUclips. Your mom or dad might not have a recording device on their phone, although...
1. If you turn the car off, if it turns off it, could depending on the car kill the steering all together and make the airbags not work 2. If you're driving a toyota you pull the fucking floor-mat out and it's fixed 3. If you're driving a VW you need to know what to do when it dies in traffic, if it had unintended acceleration just be happy the POS is running
There are so many things you can do in a manual car. Like put it in first gear and head for a dumpster. You'd ruin your engine and your car (and the dumpster, if anyone cares) but you would probably survive. You can get really creative in a manual car.
On older cars it is. My older diesel Mercedes has a simple steering lock and NO shift-brake interlock. I'm talking 1985. Diesels can run away easily, and if you turn the key all the way on MY car, you'll crash, absolutely.
For some cars like mine, the steering lock will be engaged even if you leave the key in. You have to leave the key in with ignition on to keep control of the steering wheel.
Never put a runaway diesel in neutral. That would let it blow to bits. Select a high gear and drop the clutch briskly. Most engines will stall. Autos Yer a bit stuffed really as selecting drive the car will shoot off into oblivion
Yes and make sure you stop really fast like he showed in front of a 80,000 lbs truck because that will save your life you want to make sure to pull off the road to a safe place not to risk anyone's life and this video needs to be remade
So much bs. I've yet to see a gasoline engine runaway. I've yet to see a DIESEL light vehicle engine runaway. So much crap over something that might happen 1 in 1,000,000,000. On a heavy duty truck however, doing this will surely kill you by flipping the truck over. The only way to stop avrunaway heavy diesel is if you have installed an air shut off valve. Period.
If a diesel runaways and you turn the key (to the position when the engine normaly stops) and it doesn't work, you should block the intake. If you cant do that then if you are on a manual you need to put in in gear(like 3rd,4rth etc. Or reverse) and drop the clutch and that will stall the engine. On an automatic you must disconnect the battery terminal but im not 100% sure on this method. Go practice it somewhere because the engine can literally blow up if a traditional runaway occurs(when the engine is fed the oil from the turbo, or its own oil etc.) Hope i helped ;)
@@charis.sif you disconnect the battery nothing will change, the Diesel will just continue to rev higher and higher until it blows, block the intake or co2 fire extinguisher into it is the only option then
This is something that should be taught in school. If it was maybe that family that was going 120mph and got into an accident, would still be alive today.
My 87 Toyota wont lock the steeringwheel unless you push down a button - the same button you have to push to get the key out. this is wife-protection ;D
It's just Americans and their really bad cars. We actually have brakes in the cars here in europe. The engines don't stand a chance. Also if this were to happen to me, no problem. Hit the clutch, throw it to neutral, stop and kill the engine. If it were to happen in the bmw auto i drive, i can just use the brakes to stop it, because they're strong enough to stop the car even in full throttle. Or i can just put it to neutral and yeah. However most drivers don't have any clue of their cars.
If someone can't find neutral they shouldn't have a drivers license lol
Anthony Giles I agree ☝️
Joe Don but I'm American and only drive manuals
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You can always call 911 and ask where it is.
When people panic and don't know how to get themselves out of the situation of course they would forget about the N
Lol pop it into neutral? Turn off ignition? I clicked on this thinking it was about runaway on diesels, which is entirely different.
Mikey Mulhearn me too
In a runnaway diesel, you would need to put the clutch in stop, neutral, pop the hood and block off air to the engine.
Put it in 5-6 gears release clutch :)) and its dead.
Yes Colony when u are at STOP.
Yeah, for that you need to either disconnect the pump from the electric source or cut off the fuel line.
If you aren't smart enough to find neutral you don't belong behind a wheel
drive manual... use clutch
and burn some calories
Ro lf Triple plus
Or use the "neutral" setting in automatic
Thanks for the advice!! Very helpful. I will proceed to salvage my lexus for a clutch-operated vehicle
"Most people have never even put their car into neutral."
Really?! What planet are you living on? I use neutral every day.
VinylToVideo you would be surprised how many people don't know where neutral is. I have had people tell me "oh my car doesn't have that " and they give me a list of reasons like cause it's an automatic or it's just to new .
Stig Cruise
These are the people who should not be driving and are unprecedentedly causing problems on the road.
Well, where do you think the first sentence leads to? in france and spain, more than 60% of the people that have cars drive like a fucking junk high on meth and morphine, they dont use blinkers, dont use night lights, don't know how to use roundabouts, don't know how to go and when to stop ( tipical ecounter, the guy that goes out of the supermarket and throws itself onto trafic, no blinker, no stop) in france most of the time they make fucking train accidents, they drive so fucking fast, and so damn close to each one that i don't know how they are all not dead by now, the overspeed 90% of the time, tailgate each one non stop(literally nonstop), they overpass on straigt line(don't know how you call it, the center line is full, not stripped)... so if in theese 2 places(suposedly first world in health care and any BS more) they drive like indians, but less populated. i don't see what is the reason that there where you are people don't know where neutral is on a car, im taking france and spain because is where i have lived most, and i have seen some big ass shit happen, at least your side only doesn't know where neutral is.( sorry for the long text, here's a face.
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all cars have neutral
For what?
I'm one of those people who doesn't see the appeal of automatic transmissions, even today.. but I enjoy driving and apparently have sufficient coordination to steer, shift and operate one or more of the three pedals on my vehicles. But seeing videos like these (was watching runaway diesel videos); I wonder what the "how to stop a runaway self-driving car" videos are going to instruct people to do when self-driving cars really become a thing.
yeah, that is scary. Think of heavy self-driving trucks with turbo_diesel_engines!
Once self-driving cars will be properly implemented (which will take many many years), no cars with combustion engines will be sold anymore. It'll all be electric.
So that problem will never really exist in the first place.
@@Aomicplane How does changing the drivetrain to all-electric magically do away with the possibility of runaway cars? It would do the opposite of help in a runaway scenario (think about the torque)... Additionally, self-driving cars have the potential to make things worse. If a software glitch, hardware malfunction, or someone hacks what will likely be an Internet connected as well as mesh networked vehicle, you'll have other things to worry about besides sudden acceleration. With pretty much everything being "drive-by-wire", good luck getting a runway self-driving EV under control. Even if you have say, a mechanical emergency brake, unless there's a breaker to cut the power to the drive motors on your dash, center console, or wired into the e-brake lever\pedal, the torque those electric motors can produce will overpower your emergency brake easily.. and that's if your car doesn't drive you into a barrier or something else if the self-driving components freak out.
Oh wait, you're made a joke right? Since the EV will exhaust its battery pack before anything bad happens. =p
@@yarrik701 Maybe installing a killswitch would make stopping a runaway EV possible?
@@builderbasti9773 The kill-switch would have to be mechanical, and not software driven in any way. Additionally, you'd still need to supply power to the brake booster and power steering if using a steer-by-wire and\or brake-by-wire system. So, this would necessitate keeping steering and braking on the 12-volt system and isolated from the main drive battery (I'm assuming they are driven by the 12-volt system currently). Other can-of-worms issues with self-driving capabilities and a kill-switch engaged event, etc. Main issue would be the application of the current day "we'll solve that in software" approach people have been taking... sometimes, especially when dealing with a failsafe, the good old mechanical approach is the best approach provided it's done right.
The more difficult models to stop are old automatics that only have a front-pump on the transmission. On level roads these work just fine but if one descends a steep hill with not much fuel in the tank all hell can break loose. The fuel runs to the front of the tank, away from the pick up point so the engine quits. Power steering is lost as soon as the engine stops turning. Power braking ceases after two or three presses of the brake pedal. In the case of the Ford Granada 2.8 automatic built in Cologne, one now has about two tons of car to try to control. One can set the parking brake to as hard as it will go then try pressing the foot brake with all ones strength. Pulling on the steering wheel and using two feet on the brake pedal should prevent the car from going any faster. Once level ground is reached the car will stop as there is now no "mg sin alpha" pushing it along. Once on the level the car will start OK and all systems will now work again.
If any crash victim says "The brakes failed" but afterwards the brakes are found to be perfect it is quite possible that they are telling the truth.
Once we put our car on neutral by mistake while driving 190km/h on Autobahn putting it back into drive caused an electronic failure and we had to move over 4 lanes to the right stopping on the service lane. So try it slower and dont do it by mistake :)
That feeling when your throttle gets stuck and you just laugh at it because you drive a manual..
same goes for runaway diesels. engine revs out of control? just stop brake top gear and dump the clutch.
Don't buy automatics, that's the Thing :D Putting it in Neutral becomes obvious when you have to shift yourself, then you can just slam in 6Th and stall it :P
Most automatics have a system where the brake pedal can override the throttle.
just press the left pedal? oh right... americans don't know how to drive a stick ;-)
What is a stick you ask? trolololo
Lazy people make lazy vehicles. They can't even turn a key.. To hard for them. :P
raidkoast honestly i dont even know what you are saying. Other countries started the push to start before we did.
Krasane push button ignition were in race cars to save time on the track, so auto makers basically got the idea from that
I hate push to start
In Europe manual gears are also becoming more common.
That thing in the Volkswagen is pretty smart!
Thanks for the tips
Good video. Not sure why you included the last bit though. If the car is running away, the system that allows the brakes to override the accelerator likely will not work. Shifting to neutral and braking is the best course of action in this situation for all cars.
Or just drive a stick shift. Then you’ll always know where neutral is 😂😂😂😂😂
Are brakes on cars for the american market so weak?
As far as I know heren in Germany brakes have to be strong enough to stop the car under all circumstances.
murrican cars are shitty as hell
Too bad this isn't an American car.
doesn't really matter, the cars are often made to just meet the regulations of a specific country. For example many cars that are made for the indian market have much less safety features compared to the european versions. smaller brakes, no airbags, etc...
Quarter throttle in my camaro overpowers my brakes but I have a lot more power than stock with stock 1980's disc brakes, kind of scary when I had the throttle stick this summer but I'm not retarded so I just turned it off.
In soviet germany brakes stop you
in Europe this doesn't happen on toyotas
Toyota must not care about muricans.
@@jimbopawIt's more of a design fault than anything.
If this were in a manual just leg down on the clutch and pull in somewhere. Another reason why i only drive manual vehicles
I'd just stick with a manual. I like being in full control of my car
Ummm please don't slam your breaks if this happens to you in a highway... you just put the car in neutral, then stop in a SAFE PLACE, then turn off the car. Or if the car's on a runway and it's a diesel, you just get the fuck outta there
This is why I want manual transmission cars
"It's not always obvious how to turn a engine off"
It's true. Look what happened when he pressed the start button: the engine didn't turn off.
@@alexderus7480 Some people turn the enginge off after they parked .
@@caecium695How will they park if the car is accelerating out of control?
@@alexderus7480 I meamt most off the people should know, after the first time they parked their vehicle, how to turn it off.
Most modern German cars will cut power once you apply the brake. It won't let the engine go full throttle with any amount of braking pressure applied.
the majority of cars in germany are manual aswell, where such a thing is easily mitigated, the car cant lock you out of neutral as well its a linkage shifting the transmission directly.
The brakes can always overpower the engine, even without vacuum assist.
My first thought without even seeing the video, is SHIFT TO NEUTRAL. Let me guess, that is what the man said? How do people not know this? Shifting to neutral ceases the power from the engine to the wheels.
If you don't know this, you don't need to be driving. At all.
"just buy manual". I would love too but i have arthritis in my left knee so i cant really drive stick. Besides the morning and afternoon rush hour is horrible.
turn of ignition?
On my car the brakes would win easily over the accelerator. I have found though the loss of power braking when accelerator is down. One of the problems is automatics shifting into a lower gear as you slow down under load making it harder to stop. The gearbox just assumed you came to a hill if you are mashing the pedal at low speed. I think unless I had 1000 horsepower in my Citroen c2 it would stop okay.
Useful info I didn't know. I thought that brake always owerride gaz pedal.
this trick will not work with diesels as they will draw oil from the sump and will not shut down even with ignition off. The only way is to aim a fire extinguisher up the air intake which will deprive it of the all important oxygen needed for combustion. Carry one in the boot (or trunk lol)
this information is sooooo incomplete.
the steps shown here wont work on a classical runaway diesel as an example. very bad information here
This is targetted towards automatic transmission petrol vehicles (which i've never heard of running away, but that's besides the point). Additionally, if you drive a manual or diesel vehicle you likely know what to do in those cases anyways.
i think they mean when the throttle valve gets somehow stuck. it doesn't really run away but is under throttle the whole time and because they use torgue coverters brakes can't stop the engine even should the car stop. and a proper driver knows what to do like in a runaway diesel you either put it in last gear and dump the clutch or when youre in an auto put it in neutral and run
in a manual car depress the clutch apply the brake bring the vehicle to a stop. . Then put it in the highest gear you can then dump the clutch. Should stall it if not handbrake and call the fire brigade ..
I'd try to turn the key off before dumping the clutch...
+aillli ah yes I forgot about that bit
Steering wheel lock in most cars is a mechanical device actuated by a key, so gearbox has nothing to do abiut it
Gonna say I'm sure if you put your auto into neutral your transmission will be fucked so what good will the car be then?
Useful info but when you have diesel engine runaway then turn off the engine you can only on manual transmission (brake + first gear)
I have a Jetta exactly like that one! Best car I ever had, and after seeing this...even more so!
A few years ago, we had a situation like this in Australia, where a Ford Exploder ran away on the highway. I'm no expert on these particular vehicles, but it was reported that he couldn't select neutral while the vehicle was moving, it apparently has some form of lockout?
www.smh.com.au/national/no-fault-in-cruisecontrol-terror-car-20100107-lwdd.html
A vehicle will ALWAYS be able to shift into neutral from reverse or park.
Here where i live automatic transmissions are kind off rare, not because we don't have the money for it, but because most of the people here want to have as much control over their car as possible, so the only times you see an automat, its either a handicapped person [an amputee for example] or when someone is rich and a bad driver - because automats are more expensive and less common here. So if you walk into a pub here, and you start a conversation about cars, and someone says he has automatic transmission, he's gonna probably be made fun off, unless he has a good reason - he's an amputee ect.
Another instances of automats are female drivers - which most of - at least here - are bad drivers...
I'm guessing you don't live in a city with a traffic problem. Where I live people are starting to drive more and more automatic because there is a bad traffic problem. Driving a manual in slow moving stop-and-go traffic is not fun. You are using the clutch and the low gears way too much for it to be fun.
My mom once had a situation that involved a dog jumping under her feet, and sitting on the gas.
The lesson is drive Geman cars
This is the difference of an german car, but americans doesnt prefer vw anymore, only because they are not as clean as they recruited..
But they are cleaner than many americam cars
lol, and those cummins 8liter diesels etc. are clean as fuck??? It is all about the money, not a fucking earth saving clean cars. Americans love to sue someone...
I've got hypothesis about the whole VW thing. In USA, emissions are regulated on a by-volume basis. Your car can emit less CO than any other car on the road, but if its bad-gas percentage by volume exceeds a set value, it will not pass emissions control. So if you have a giant truck and it pollutes a lot of mass, it could be as much as 10 honda civics, but if that mass is within the acceptable volume percentage , you're good to motor on. In Germany, the polluting gas controls are set on a mass basis per class of car. This is better for the world, makes more sense in terms of net mass pollution. So I bet VW along with similar imports all tweaked their computers to appear compliant with america's dumb-as-fuck emissions rules. The by-volume regulation may be better for economy though, or at least for short term business.
"It's so hard to drive without power steering"... wtf is going on with this world...
XPACT It’s nice but it is isn’t hard so these people need to stop babying
My mother is the same and she drove a Honda Civic CR-X once that my uncle owned and she said the steering was *really heavy and impossible to steer* and didn’t want to drive it.
So much babying it’s just insane how we grow weaker over the years.
1:38 spent **T-A-L-K-I-N-G** to somebody in an 🚨 *EMERGENCY.* 🚨
Aren't you clever.
Holy fuck even the cars in the 60's dont lock the steering unless you PULL the key out. Never seen a car that locks steering by just turning the key.
yes many cars ecu picks up from the brake pedal switch then cancels the throttle request, but this video is just showing how to stop a car and sorry if you dont know how to stop erm... dont drive erm get the bus, lose some weight and walk, if your gonna make a consumer video show a video showing a true runaway, fill up a tdi intercooler with warm oil and go for a drive, then you'll know what a runaway is
if a powerful turbo-diesel has a runaway accidentally; there is almost no chance to stop it securely. Very old diesel engines used to have a decompression valve on the cylinder_head(s). it seems more and more relevant, that decompression_valves be reintroduced in those complicated modern engines.
as long as it is a manual you are fine. just stop brake top gear and dump the clutch. if it is automatic put into neutral, stop and either run away or choke the intake.
Im sorry, but if the brakes arent strong enough to bring the car to a stop even under full throttle they are simply to weak.
They checked this in Germany even with a 620hp Porsche GT2 in first gear, and the engine stand no chance of winning the fight against the brakes
If diesel run away u won't turn it off because it burn oil of the engine
Its self ignition even if u pull out the Key best way in manuals is to shift highest gear hold brake and let the clutch
it works when the road is quiet well to hard braking, because car in the back will hit you
Do-You-Claim that brakes don't overrun engine power? Just standard family SUV has braking power over 300bhp, not to mention sports cars brakes. You can stall engine just by braking, never mind the neutral.
You can't stall an automatic.
Who the fuck doesnt know where neutral is??
Oh.. Wait.. Americans.
nsfigaro We may not be very smart but we are damn good at war.
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you do know power steering disengages at speed, right? lol it would be no harder to turn the wheel with the engine off at speed. I'm not sure this guy knows what he's talking about
Disengaging at speed, well...depends... newer cars have electric power steering that is variable, older power steering is always active because it uses hydraulics, but in both cases at speed it's easy to turn the wheel even without power steering. Its only purpose now is to allow women to park their cars hehe But seriously in many of these videos they talk about loss of power steering like certain death will occur... but people drove their cars for decades without it.
XPACT actually, most cars since around the 90's have had a valve in the power steering pump to reduce the pressure at speed, same thing with the electric systems, just it's done in programming so it reduces at speed
@@XPACT3 even without power steering, its easy to steer the wheel when the car is moving relatively fast
WOW!!! thanks for that. thank you for saving my life.
how its going to lock the steering wheel if your key is stil in the keyfob ? and how hard is it to put it in neutral ?
Erm, now come on, I dont even drive, never drove a car... but sure as hell know where neutral is! Surely nobody is that thick as to get confused where neutral is on an automatic or manual.
Why would it be hard to find neutral on a car's shifter??? It's got a big N on it!
Solution: if your car is automatic gear shift, go into neutral, rev once or twice, shift back into drive and the engine should stop accelerating.
People don’t know how to put their vehicle into neutral? Is that what he said?
This video isnt about runaway diesels lmao, he did this video because of that Toyota incident in the past where Toyota's just accelerate on their own
For this to happen to a car with a Throttle cable is very very Rare, but new cars with a throttle solenoid control by a computer this can happen easily if it shorts out or fails.
Lol! Clutch and brake until stop the car. Put it in the highest posssible gear and quickly release clutch. This will cause the enging to stall. Easy. "It could be hard to find neutral" Americans.
how can you not find neutral like wtf
What if it won't go into neutral
All the advices are WRONG!!!
The only one right way in such situation: just call your mom or grand and ask for advice, alternatively just write them SMS :)
Michael User If you feel that texting your mother at 200kph is the way to go, you better be texting her a nice and short goodbye. Following this guy's advice gets you dropped into a casket.
It is better to call 911 because they will record it and then someone will post it here on RUclips. Your mom or dad might not have a recording device on their phone, although...
You think ir funny? Well ur not
1. If you turn the car off, if it turns off it, could depending on the car kill the steering all together and make the airbags not work
2. If you're driving a toyota you pull the fucking floor-mat out and it's fixed
3. If you're driving a VW you need to know what to do when it dies in traffic, if it had unintended acceleration just be happy the POS is running
on a manual you should leave it in gear, the engine brake will slow the car down faster than if you're in neutral.
There are so many things you can do in a manual car. Like put it in first gear and head for a dumpster. You'd ruin your engine and your car (and the dumpster, if anyone cares) but you would probably survive. You can get really creative in a manual car.
WTF how can you own a car and not know how to put it in neutral or turn the engine off, is that even possible?
If it happens to me I would simple push the clutch in a shut the engine off. If the engine doesn't stop, go into 5th gear and pop the clutch.
On older cars it is. My older diesel Mercedes has a simple steering lock and NO shift-brake interlock. I'm talking 1985. Diesels can run away easily, and if you turn the key all the way on MY car, you'll crash, absolutely.
That Venza is what my grandma drives!
Pressing the brakes and pumping the brakes aren't the same thing lol
"most people have never put their car in neutral"
Turning the engine off wont help much...
If only cars had a pedal to disconnect the transmission from the engine.....
You need to take out that key to engage steering lock...
not for every car.
For some cars like mine, the steering lock will be engaged even if you leave the key in. You have to leave the key in with ignition on to keep control of the steering wheel.
Every vehicle I own you can't turn the ignition all the way back while it's in gear.
On a manual, just clutch in.
Never put a runaway diesel in neutral.
That would let it blow to bits.
Select a high gear and drop the clutch briskly.
Most engines will stall.
Autos
Yer a bit stuffed really as selecting drive the car will shoot off into oblivion
This is why i have a manual
shutting the engine down is easy for him to say, what if you have a runaway diesel that cant be shut off?
Yes and make sure you stop really fast like he showed in front of a 80,000 lbs truck because that will save your life you want to make sure to pull off the road to a safe place not to risk anyone's life and this video needs to be remade
Put the gear into R.
i never drove an automatic, not even know anyone personaly that do...
That's the incident of mark sailor
So much bs. I've yet to see a gasoline engine runaway. I've yet to see a DIESEL light vehicle engine runaway. So much crap over something that might happen 1 in 1,000,000,000. On a heavy duty truck however, doing this will surely kill you by flipping the truck over. The only way to stop avrunaway heavy diesel is if you have installed an air shut off valve. Period.
How the fuck has never put their vehicle on neutral?? A renta?
Last step is buying an manuel
That’s because I drive manual.
Ok cool. Now tell me if it is a diesel.
If a diesel runaways and you turn the key (to the position when the engine normaly stops) and it doesn't work, you should block the intake. If you cant do that then if you are on a manual you need to put in in gear(like 3rd,4rth etc. Or reverse) and drop the clutch and that will stall the engine. On an automatic you must disconnect the battery terminal but im not 100% sure on this method. Go practice it somewhere because the engine can literally blow up if a traditional runaway occurs(when the engine is fed the oil from the turbo, or its own oil etc.) Hope i helped ;)
@@charis.sif you disconnect the battery nothing will change, the Diesel will just continue to rev higher and higher until it blows, block the intake or co2 fire extinguisher into it is the only option then
Or you know. Press the clutch.
If u are in n put reverse fast
This is something that should be taught in school. If it was maybe that family that was going 120mph and got into an accident, would still be alive today.
What the actual fuck? It should be common sense to put the car into neutral.
What about manual cars?
press the clutch car stops accelerating and pull over safely
cantyou just put it in neutral?
What if the car is manual?
Patrick Crawford Clutch, and let it spin.
There is no such thing as neutral in auto. Best thing you can do is let car accelerate and enjoy fast speed.
My god...are people this stupid as to not know this?? That is a sad thought.
So Americans mostly don't know how to drive stick...ok. But then they don't even know the functions of their automatic transmission! Wtf
My 87 Toyota wont lock the steeringwheel unless you push down a button - the same button you have to push to get the key out. this is wife-protection ;D
It's just Americans and their really bad cars. We actually have brakes in the cars here in europe. The engines don't stand a chance. Also if this were to happen to me, no problem. Hit the clutch, throw it to neutral, stop and kill the engine.
If it were to happen in the bmw auto i drive, i can just use the brakes to stop it, because they're strong enough to stop the car even in full throttle. Or i can just put it to neutral and yeah.
However most drivers don't have any clue of their cars.
If you don't know how to engage into neutral, you shouldn't be driving!!!