What is such a problem with reduce Toyota鈥檚 speed, when acceleration pedal is stuck?

Is shifting transmission to neutral position and braking not solving a problem? I know it don鈥檛 solve Toyota鈥檚 mechanical problem, but it can save danger situations, I think. Am I wrong? If yes, please correct me.|||It's no problem to shift into neutral in any of the cars except the Prius.


On the Prius, stomping and holding the brakes will engage a panic mode that will give the brakes extra boost and stop engine acceleration (the engine will be running at idle speed). This will occur even if the accelerator pedal is floored (A Yahoo Prius group member just tried several different ways to get the Prius to accelerate when it shouldn't, and the only way he was able to achieve it was to just press the brakes enough so that they rubbed and hold the accelerator down..|||u are correct......for some reason the drivers of toyota's happen to b idiots.......like the guy with the run away prius supposedly did not think to use the parking brake and hit the of button until the cops were beside him "suggesting" it over loud speakers.....





honestly i think most of it is just ppl trying to get "paid"....|||Maybe it'll work but you can try puttin it to parking mode/ the hand brake too ? But, in the first place I wouldn't even drive a toyota even it's a new model not worth risking my life :D|||Unintended acceleration is a very serious problem. Under ideal conditions, simply turning the ignition off and braking the vehicle to a stop is indeed the simple solution - but when panic steps in and you're half way through a store front or barreling down on a busload of litigation lawyers - the simple solution isn't always the first impulse.|||Because the transmission is not mechanically connected to the shifter (it is computer controlled) the shifter will not allow the transmission to shift into neutral. The situation is like that a formula one driver looses his paddle shifter, you are stuck in what ever gear you are currently in. When an airplane has a fly by wire system there is redundancy (back up systems) on cars at the present time there is not. The costs to provide them would offset the cost savings and weight reductions gained by using them.


All of us are going to have to rethink our emergency procedures as some of them will not work with these systems.|||really, do they know the key turns the engine OFF ?|||Old Man Dirt is repeating the same point I've been trying to make for a while now...on a lot of new cars, the transmission is electronically controlled by the ECU. The shift lever is basically just a switch.





And I have heard and read that if the engine is over a certain RPM, the computer will NOT allow the transmission to shift into neutral. Even if you put the shift lever in neutral, the transmission will still be in gear. I'm not 100 percent sure if that is true, but that's what I have read and what several people have told me.





In fact, I really wish someone with technical knowledge about this would finally give a clear, definitive answer...can you shift the transmission into neutral if the engine is revved up at high RPM's? That's an extremely important question.





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Did you try to shift into neutral at high RPM's? "Testing" your car by shifting into neutral while coasting down a street at 20 MPH and the engine at 1500-2000 RPM is NOT the same thing as trying to shift into neutral with the engine revved up at high RPM's, which is what is happening in these accidents.





Note: I wouldn't recommend trying to shift into neutral at full throttle of course, that's only in an emergency situation. But the point is that with some new cars with an electronically controlled transmission, it may not let you do that.|||in the toyota Prius, if you select neutral at ANY speed, the car will go into neutral,if you push the POWER button on the middle of the dashboard, the ECU will go to neutral, if you apply the brakes, the car will be under your control, free to steer the car to a safe place as the engine is just ticking over at idle speed.,, if you read the Prius manual, all this info is there in black and white, This vehicle is a new type of vehicle,only a fool drives anything with new technology without reading the Manual !!!