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Originally Posted by cfg83
For SUVs, do you think there should be a special class of license? Should drivers be required to have more training?
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Yes! They require extra training to be licensed to drive a semi tractor or a motorcycle. SUV's have a higher center of gravity and handle quite differently than a typical automobile under anything other than the most ideal situations, and drivers ed does not begin to cover these situations.
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Originally Posted by cfg83
What was the logic behind slamming the accelerator? Was the idea to loosen a stuck throttle cable by giving it slack? On one hand, a drive-by-wire car wouldn't have a "throttle cable" to unstick. On the other hand, different driver input could trigger different logic in the ECU/PCM, so the end-result could be the same.
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Back in the day when the connections were all mechanical, the idea was the jarring could free the stuck linkage. Under a stressful situation like a runaway car, I tend to go into an automatic mode and fall back on my training, however loosely it may apply. Had I not regained control, I would have wasted a few seconds attempting to downshift (with a CVT
), then turned the key off. Luckily it didn't go that far, as I probably would have locked the steering wheel and completely lost control.
