I hired an MG a month or two ago to drive up to Yorkshire from London for a weekend. The console completely froze while I was driving. I couldn’t turn down the music, change the AC, see the directions for my route, nothing. I had to pull off the motorway and restart the car to get it to go back on.
I was not likely going to buy an MG before but I never ever will even hire one now.
Why didn’t he go down a quiet street or something, remove the key from the ignition or something similar? Car would stop then once it were off. Even it it were a keyless start, throw the key out the window, once you are a distance away the car goes off.
At last! something the police are good at, in my younger days they used to make escape roads built of gravel, but this works just as well as you can have the “escape road” where you want it.
I was following this on Reddit and on a Facebook EV forum when it happened. A lot of people are accusing him of faking it in order to get popular and a lot of people wondering why he didn’t just stamp on the break and hold as they are still mechanical.
I have no idea who to believe.
It’s the fundamental problem with drive by wire. Once you have software in charge of physical actuation, then it can go wrong and there is nothing you can do about it. Applies to gearboxes, engines, braking systems.
An added problem with electric cars is that you can’t even stall the engine. Normally you can whack it in 6th and stamp on the brakes.
The new James Bond sounds shit.
Obviously the Chinese remotely turned off his brakes to test their master plan which is to get us all to buy Chinese EVs and then kill us all. Or at least that’s what I heard on Reddit.
I am not saying it is the case here but I am wondering how many people will start falsely claiming car errors as an excuse for bad driving as electric cars start to become the norm?
So I guess the hydraulics also magically failed?
These type of stories pop up often, years ago it was automatic gearboxs, then it was killer cruise control, now EVs.
Usually it’s for attention / money.
AFAICT it wasn’t brake failure, the throttle (also) jammed on.
If it was merely a failure of both braking systems, the car will roll to a stop eventually, but he tried going uphill.
Couldn’t turn it off either I’m guessing. Maybe can’t be turned off while in motion.
These stories are always always utter bollocks, he’s an attention seeker
This has nothing to do with the car being an EV. Nearly all new cars and bikes have an electronic system that will release manual brake pressure to stop wheel lock, in cars it is usually called “Electronic Brakeforce Distribution” If that system goes wrong bye bye brakes… Basically it is all about crap build quality. Of course now given where the cars were designed and manufactured social media is going to be flooded with disinformation.
In Scotland? According the news article it was in or near Glasgow, why not not write that? instead of “Scotland” like it is some kind of generic location with no villages, towns or cities, lol.
From the article “A man has said he was forced to drive his electric car into a police van to stop the vehicle when its brakes failed, according to reports” if you believe what this man say , I’ve got a bridge and some magic beans to sell you.
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I hired an MG a month or two ago to drive up to Yorkshire from London for a weekend. The console completely froze while I was driving. I couldn’t turn down the music, change the AC, see the directions for my route, nothing. I had to pull off the motorway and restart the car to get it to go back on.
I was not likely going to buy an MG before but I never ever will even hire one now.
Why didn’t he go down a quiet street or something, remove the key from the ignition or something similar? Car would stop then once it were off. Even it it were a keyless start, throw the key out the window, once you are a distance away the car goes off.
At last! something the police are good at, in my younger days they used to make escape roads built of gravel, but this works just as well as you can have the “escape road” where you want it.
I was following this on Reddit and on a Facebook EV forum when it happened. A lot of people are accusing him of faking it in order to get popular and a lot of people wondering why he didn’t just stamp on the break and hold as they are still mechanical.
I have no idea who to believe.
It’s the fundamental problem with drive by wire. Once you have software in charge of physical actuation, then it can go wrong and there is nothing you can do about it. Applies to gearboxes, engines, braking systems.
An added problem with electric cars is that you can’t even stall the engine. Normally you can whack it in 6th and stamp on the brakes.
The new James Bond sounds shit.
Obviously the Chinese remotely turned off his brakes to test their master plan which is to get us all to buy Chinese EVs and then kill us all. Or at least that’s what I heard on Reddit.
I am not saying it is the case here but I am wondering how many people will start falsely claiming car errors as an excuse for bad driving as electric cars start to become the norm?
So I guess the hydraulics also magically failed?
These type of stories pop up often, years ago it was automatic gearboxs, then it was killer cruise control, now EVs.
Usually it’s for attention / money.
AFAICT it wasn’t brake failure, the throttle (also) jammed on.
If it was merely a failure of both braking systems, the car will roll to a stop eventually, but he tried going uphill.
Couldn’t turn it off either I’m guessing. Maybe can’t be turned off while in motion.
These stories are always always utter bollocks, he’s an attention seeker
This has nothing to do with the car being an EV. Nearly all new cars and bikes have an electronic system that will release manual brake pressure to stop wheel lock, in cars it is usually called “Electronic Brakeforce Distribution” If that system goes wrong bye bye brakes… Basically it is all about crap build quality. Of course now given where the cars were designed and manufactured social media is going to be flooded with disinformation.
In Scotland? According the news article it was in or near Glasgow, why not not write that? instead of “Scotland” like it is some kind of generic location with no villages, towns or cities, lol.
From the article “A man has said he was forced to drive his electric car into a police van to stop the vehicle when its brakes failed, according to reports” if you believe what this man say , I’ve got a bridge and some magic beans to sell you.