Toyota Owner: Ride 'A Near Death Experience'

[tetsumizusawa2002]

shame on you! Rohonda!

[Japanboy1208]

American paper The Wall Street Journal (electronic version) told that disclosing advantageous information for Toyota that assumed the idea of the U.S. Ministry of Transport of the rapid acceleration problem of Toyota Motor that the driver's driving mistake was a cause had been intentionally avoided the 30th. It is testified that the former top official who retired from road traffic safety bureau (NHTSA) of the this ministry subsidiary in July is a real name, and the surrounding of Secretary of

[michiburton]

Mrs.Smith, I give you this word, Shame on Rhonda!

[hazemvirus]

i just hate it when people make stuff up, yes toyota screwed up with some cars but not all of them, i personally dont like toyota but that doest mean every little pussy just come from no where and say oh toyota sucks i had one and tried to kill me i want money! well guess what you can go kiss my ass!

[HollyNihon]

What a despicable professional liar!!

God intervened and rescued her? HAhahahahahahahahahahahaha

[PremiumWater]

The funny thing is in that all these cases I have not found one case where the evidence points directly at toyota. Not one! The funny thing is that this dumb cunt sold her "death trap" to another family. They said they had no problems with it in the 27,000 miles they had it.

[turnipbus2501]

Although she said that the car was slowed down by the God's power , is she evangelical?

"Jesus Camp"

watch?v=LACyLTsH4ac

I cannot believe the testimony of the person who received such an education.

Do not let anti-intellectual people drive a car.

[londan2]

She is joke.

[tenacioustaut]

watch?v=cCIM84AS1Fg

[harry4tech]

So when you buy a toyota does the instruction manual say that your car can suddenly accerate to 120 and you need to put your car in neutral and then brake and then steer your car to the nearest emergency side and turn off your car. I do not think so , when this will happen to you the first time you have only 3-4 seconds to react, you will be pumping your brakes and shifting. There is no way you can react to this without knowing ahead of time what to do.

[xXTrueBruinXx]

no it doesn't say that in the manual because it's something everyone learns in driving school. this is something that's a given before you get into any car

[xobile187]

harry4tech... i don't believe that currently there is any car company that states in the instruction manual what to do when your vehicle suddenly accelerates.. I'm sure there will be after this though.. and also.. this lady states she drove for 6 miles going 100mph?!? and she pulled the e-brake and nothing happened? What a big fat liar!! Anyone who knows anything about a car knows that the e-brake is connected to a cable.. and she would have spun out of she really pulled it..

[dxb750li]

@xobile187 i have no idea about the e-brake system in a lexus but the one used in some BMW's do not work in high speeds. I tried pulling the e-brake in both an X5, and an X6 at Different speeds, on a track of course, about 40-90 MPH and all the car did was slow the acceleration down for maybe 2 seconds and then continued accelerating like hell. i guess the systems in the BMW's prevent the actual handbrake from disengaging at high speed, so it could be possible her lexus does the same thing.

[terumatu]

To stop the car,her driving time is about 3minutes + 45seconds.

She did too much for this interval.

Do you believe?

[sneskid]

Exactly. She tried many things (should have left it in Neutral), and then after all that, found the time to call her husband.

So obviously in this particular case, time was not an issue, if she had reacted to it correctly.

[liveitupalways05]

NHTSA says it followed up with the current owners of Ms. Smith's Lexus and was told that they have had no problems since they bought it with less than 3,000 miles on the car. It now has about 30,000 miles on it.

[speed42595]

i had the same problem same car and i think i will never get back in a toyota ever again fuck u Toyota u greedy bastards

[Maximaniac72]

This woman is full of it. Had she put the car in neutral it would have stopped accelerating. The engine would have just bounced off the rev limiter until it was turned off. All this talk of runaway Toyotas makes me happy I have a built in safety feature on my Nissan Maxima. I push it in with my left leg and the car's not going anywhere. It's called a clutch.:)

[user392000]

Were you on some kind of medication/drug?

[tenacioustaut]

God must have been too busy with helping out someone else for the first 6miles

[Arecibo]

I'm also curious as to how she sold her car to someone else in good conscience after this (it's still on the road). Is she not personally responsible for anything?

[Arecibo]

You can put modern cars in reverse while driving without damaging your transmission, because it won't actually go in reverse. It will just not engage.

She is simply completely clueless as to how you should handle emergency situations. When she shifted into neutral, the vehicle DID go out gear - where she should have kept it. Instead, she fumbled around like a moron because it didn't occur to her that she should learn how to handle basic emergencies herself beforehand.

[banksy35]

@Arecibo you dont drive a car expecting this problem to come up, else you would not drive it.

[sneskid]

@banksy35

A good defensive driver, will drive a car, expecting ANY problem to come up. Anything can happen, when you're out there on the road. That's why you are supposed to be constantly looking for ways out. Any good driver's ed class in high school, will teach you that.

[harry4tech]

5 seconds to react dude, you cannot react in time when a car hits 120mph. You have half a second to push the brakes before you hit another car. You going 120mph. Its too fast. You not on a track, your in open road with other cars.

[sneskid]

And yet, she had the time to call her husband.

[Arecibo]

harry, if you only have half a second to react, you're following too close - that's completely your fault. That's why you base trailing distance on time, not on a fixed distance - so you have ample time at any speed.

Where the hell did you get your license, honestly?

[sneskid]

Yup! THANK YOU!!!

She "tried all available gears, including neutral.", and then left the shifter in R.

And to prove what you said about the car going out of gear, she said when she put it in neutral, the engine revved! Did anyone ask her if the car sped up, when the engine revved, during what was probably less than three seconds that she actually had it in neutral? Because if the engine revved and she didn't go faster at that point, that proves that NEUTRAL DID WORK!!

[002kes]

She didn't "sell her car to someone else". After repeatdley trying to get Toyota to buy the car back and simply refund her money (the car had only 2k miles on it), she traded the car back to the dealership and bought a different vehicle (not a Toyota of course). What the dealership did with the vehicle afterwards should weigh on their conscience, not hers.

[quiquemassa]

No, you can't put a car in reverse, it will blow your transmission. I call that good acting and good dramatization.

[battleforwaterloo]

Technically you can put the car into reverse. The transmission will use an internal brake to stop the wheels from spinning first before it actually shifts the gear to reverse. During all this, the car is actually in neutral waiting for the wheels to stop spinning.

The transmission in the Lexus ES330 she's talking about has been in production since 2002 and was used in millions of Toyota vehicles until a new 6 speed was introduced.

I say she's lying. A third-party verify her statements.

[terun1978]

@quiquemassa Your absolutely right! Then she had the nerve to say she LEFT it in reverse and it kept going lol.

[TommyV246]

@quiquemassa the transmissions and accelerators in newer cars are electronicly controled, if theres a defect with the transmission/accerlator then driver input doesnt really matter, I beleive she did put it in reverse and it did nothing because on another video i beleive its named "Toyota accelerator reallly a problem" or somthing he shifted a priuse into reverse while flooring it and nothing happen

[packnsavenz]

the car tried to start itself haha bit of stephen king happening. guess the wrecker driver wants some coin as well

[hiromaru0411]

I have a question.

Can we put a car in reverse while we drive?

[sneskid]

On an automatic, no - at least not very easily. For many years, there has always been some kind of safety, that keeps you from doing this. It is a GOOD thing! It keeps you from accidentally completely trashing the transmission.

On the other hand, since shifting to neutral is ok, there is no safety that prevents this.

If Rhonda had simply left it in NEUTRAL the entire time, she would have stopped just fine.

[WildBill6942]

I heard she referred to the car as Christine. Coincidence?

[bizskithead]

bullshit

[usaaaa1]

By the way, where did "fool" GM go?

[nippononna]

This bitch got a good idea to earn big big big money owing to Toyota's recall.

[Trevrz1]

this woman could've been killed you psychotic

[3241541]

FABRICATION

[Trevrz1]

right- cuz you were there

[LilApe]

Fuck toyota and all the other imports.

[terun1978]

I'm not understanding how the car could continue forward when she put it in reverse. That would have either sent the vehicle in reverse obviously or blown the transmission from all the gear shifting at high speeds and the shut the car down.

[Trevrz1]

computer issue

[sneskid]

No issue. The computer did EXACTLY what it was programmed to do, and that was to protect the transmission from being completely trashed.

[NationalNeongraphic]

she put the gear into Reverse when 100miles driving??? tell more better lie.

[sneskid]

She THOUGHT she put the gear into reverse, but she didn't. The computer ignored the command to shift to reverse. The way she tells it though, sounds as if the computer not shifting it to reverse, was a malfunction. It wasn't.  In fact, the computer did exactly what it was supposed to do, and that was, to protect the transmission from being trashed.

If she actually LEFT IT IN NEUTRAL (which she says she didn't), she would have been able to stop the car much sooner.

[carquestions]

Kristi Bradosky cried on 60 minutes in 1986 when she claimed her Audi killed her son - turns out 3 years later science proved she was the problem not the car - years and time were lost, Audi lost sales - all because of SUA - its happening all over again

[ForTehNguyen]

god has forsaken you because he didnt tell you to shift to neutral

you beat natural selection this round woman

[whiskeygurl70]

How can any car shift into reverse. I don't think I can do that with my own car while driving. I can see the shifting into other gears, but reverse is that even possible.

[bachtuyen84]

this bitch lies so much. she said that she put the gear into neutral, and Reverse then remained in Reverse lol.... . bitch. if the government believe this shit, then we have a dumbest government ever.

[diggingforgold]

Did you listen to Dr. Gilbert's testimony just a few minutes after Smiths? A simply short can cause the car to take off with no thrown error codes. The problem is a lack of safe guards. Exponent, a company that Toyota hired, was able to duplicate Dr. Gilbert's results.

There's a lot more to this problem than floor mats and sticky pedals- this is just the tip of the ice burg.

[lancekasten]

Put the car into every gear, hit the brake, called husband on the bluetooth but NEVER TRIED TO TURN THE KEY TO SHUT THE ENGINE DOWN FOR SIX MILES????????? I am really finding this VERY hard to believe!!!

[WB1200]

There is no key to turn on that Lexus, just a push button to start & stop. I know it is throttle by wire, I guess it is shift by wire too since moving the gear selector did nothing. Sounds like everything is controlled by software that can lock up, must be Win Vista...

[lancekasten]

LOL WB! Win Vista Indeed! Thanks for the info on the push button ignition. I still do not believe what this woman is saying.

[alskmp2]

No no no if you heard what she said, She said that they car will not turn off until you hit under 33 MPH. it looks like this car has major problems and all of them should be taken off the roads NOW.... If you can't stop your vehicle and you kill people, Even the possiblilty of killing some one with a runaway vehicle.... I am just saying that People with these cars SHOULD NOT DRIVE THEM AT ALLL!!!!!!! Until they are fixed... But then again I don't know if I could trust them ever again...

[xicotiko]

maybe the car was reprogramed by the T-X the terminator loooooooooooooooooooool

[Dedhedted71]

BULLCRAP!!! This is all just a phony campaign against Toyota because the govmnt took over the American auto companies! See??? This is how they plan to get us to buy American cars!! Lies & propaganda!

[alskmp2]

You are soooo so Stupid... what about the people that has died in these cars? if the cars can't be put into neutral WHY the HELL are they on the road?? and also they didn't take over all of the american auto companies...

[amandasdesigns]

Wow 100 in reverse

[WeskJago]

OK WE GET IT! TOYOTA DID A BUNCH OF CRAP! you don't have to post it THREE TIMES! you fucking retards...(referring to AP)

[ForceOfWizardry]

When machines start to surpass human intelligence!

[IrishEyez01]

Wow, poor lady. What a horrible thing to have to go through :(

[dreampilot2]

Damn the car started to try to start itself!