Climate apocalypse laws, starting in 2026 20% of all new vehicles sold need to be EVs (or hybrids) by govermental mandate, this increases a certain amount every year until 100% need to be electric, don't know if 2030 or 35
The red car that got trashed cracks me the fuck up. There was obviously some crazy shit going on ahead of them and they were too stupid/unaware to realize they were putting themselves in the middle of it with their impatience. Like the retards who get pissed people in front of them aren't moving when the light turns green because they see an ambulance coming.
School just started here, so I stopped for a kid in the cross walk. Jabroni comes blasting around me, and almost hit the kid. I didn't think a modern car with ABS could lock up the brakes.
Reminds me of this car of old people who had a stuck accelerator. Had enough brains to call 911 and say they are out of control. Got to intersection at end of highway and hit and killed others. Not once in the 5min did it occur to the driver to turn the fucking engine off
Incidentally the last words recorded on the 911 call were "omg the road is ending. Prey! PREY!!"
Yeah, as I just said in my other comment, newer cars don't have keys, and I'm not sure keyless (and electric in this case) cars even let you turn it off mid-drive.
It's certainly possible that it might not let you turn the car off.
It won't let you turn it off in drive stick that bitch in neutral and it will. Car manufacturers design cars to be able to be turned off with a stuck accelerator, people just dont know about it and tend to panic.
Putting it in neutral is just a suggestion to the computer as well. If it locked up entirely, nothing helps in this sort of design. Go back to reliable cable control imo.
Many cars still have neutral be a mechanical connection as a safety feature, I think its just ones with the stupid knob that isnt. There's still an override, otherwise you'd have a tough time getting a tow.
I just rented a brand new Mercedes over the 4th of July, and it wouldn't let you put it in neutral while you were driving. The stupid gear selector was on a stalk like the turn signal, and I accidentally tried a few times.
Oh yeah, just grenade your transmission. Putting it in neutral fixes the problem without even needing to shut it off. Its like people have forgotten neutral even exists in the age of automatic transmissions.
My Life vs. my transmission is not a difficult decision to make. Emergency reactions should require the fewest steps possible, and a safety measure to ensure I don't trash my engine by accident shouldn't cause a scared person to not be able to save their own life.
drive-by-wire, lock/unlock-by-wire too. Teslas that lose power (say, due to a battery fire) cannot be opened with the regular door handles. You have to rip out the upholstery to find a hidden release
It's certainly much worse of a problem with EVs because they're all designed by futuristic techbros that want everything tied to Google Home or the equivalent. A common EV story is getting your car bricked by a routine OS update. When's the last time that happened to an ICE vehicle?
my drive shaft has a mechanical connection to my wheels, all of my doors are mechanical except for my rear lift gate, and my car is post 2020. If my battery quits I can still unlock and exit my car using the same door handle. If my accelerator gets stuck I can manually turn the key and shut off the engine. this is not something you can do in an EV with a malfunctioning speed controller.
The made-in-Germany Tesla Model Y owners could not find the emergency release as shown in the video and the car's manual. They shared pictures showing the door pocket liner without the access hatch to the emergency release system. To be sure, the Tesla Model Y owner's manual warns that "not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors."
I'm starting to think emergency hammers should be mandatory in EVs at this point.
Also, Chao is why you don't get in your car with a BAC around three times the legal limit. It's also amazing to me that no one in that crowd had the means to break a window, but I guess I just roll with a different crowd that doesn't include zero-skill CEOs.
Just had someone in the store rush out, then come back half an hour later.
Phone was at 1% and if it died they couldnt unlock their tesla so they had to run to charge the phone in the car.
This is incorrect. For the front doors there's an easily accessible manual door latch inches from the electric one. For the back you have to peel up some rubber from the door pocket - stupid design but there's no upholstery being ripped up
Honestly, uncontrollably fast is probably the way to go. If he had any ability to steer, he should have kept it on the motorway and let the batteries die. At top speed, the car won't drive for more than 10-20 minutes tops.
Even if you can't steer and can't drive, it doesn't mean you can't try to keep fighting for control over the car. Pilots have been dying this way for decades.
Incidentally the last words recorded on the 911 call were "omg the road is ending. Prey! PREY!!"
I like this spelling of the transcript that implies not they were religious, but that they were some kind of post-apocalyptic highway marauders who had just stumbled upon fresh meat.
Not once in the 5min did it occur to the driver to turn the fucking engine off
Sorry, the car knows better than you. Also, these new fake-Mustang EVs don't even have a keyhole in the door, let alone the ignition.
Show of hands: Without looking it up (and I did for this), how many people know how to turn off a push-button car while it's moving, presuming the software allows you to do so?
Of those of you that do, how many of you are likely to remember that while your car is careening down a highway divider?
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Incidentally the last words recorded on the 911 call were "omg the road is ending. Prey! PREY!!"
Wrong "pray", but can we get a link to that if you weren't makin' a funny?
Please enter the 7 digit code for emergency shutdown authorization. It's right there on page 116 of the owner's manual. No not the one in your glovebox, the one the dealership gave you to keep at home. 🙄 Didn't you memorize it?
My car actually has keyless autostart, but that is about as automated as it gets for it. No self driving/lane assist shit that takes control away from me.
Show of hands: Without looking it up (and I did for this), how many people know how to turn off a push-button car while it's moving, presuming the software allows you to do so?
Trick question, I wouldn't buy a push to start car without looking that up first to make sure I could stop it in an emergency.
I don't know how these computer-run cars work. Maybe he couldn't turn it off because the computer sensed the car was in motion and prevented it "for safety"
I haven't driven a newer car in a while, but not sure how it all interfaces. It almost certainly doesn't have a physical key, as cars seem to have moved away from that, and I'm not sure if you can turn off a new car while driving. There might be, ironically, fail-safes.
So, not sure if the driver panicked in the moment and also screwed up here, or if there was really really nothing he could do.
Either way, seems like a huge issue from the car, as not everyone can be expected to react quickly and rationally, and, cars clearly aren't supposed to do that.
Dude the comments are cooked. All of those fucking retards and paid shills are blaming anything but the vehicle, which is funny because if it was a Tesla they'd be screaming for Elongated Muskrats head.
I really hope whoever decided to name this disaster "Mustang" has been blackballed from the industry. If we are lucky, stories like this will result in them all being recalled and sent to a landfill.
You can tell Ford knows it was a huge mistake too, by how much they compensated with the GTD. That thing is fucking sick.
"From the video, it’s difficult to determine whether the vehicle was malfunctioning or if the driver was unable to take control for another reason, such as experiencing a medical episode or simply panicking."
Now consider government or a bad actor (I repeat myself) would be able to push a button to get your car to do this or worse like intentionally drive off a bridge or even into a crowd of pesky "easter worshipers" to make a point.
You'll know it's ready when parts for your current non-electronic car become illegal to buy.
Don't forget, here in Canuckistan, next year 20% of sold vehicles need to be these bombs, soon 100%. MAID included.
Is that due to canadian content laws?
Climate apocalypse laws, starting in 2026 20% of all new vehicles sold need to be EVs (or hybrids) by govermental mandate, this increases a certain amount every year until 100% need to be electric, don't know if 2030 or 35
Thanks Turdeau
Chinese collusion laws
That too, but Chinese EVs have 100% tariff here
Will a BYD still be cheaper than a domestic EV even with the tariff?
I haven't seen many Chinese EVs, but I am Norther than most
Beauty, I guess we will see here if they keep the mandate, you may pay a little more for registration, etc, but might be worth
The red car that got trashed cracks me the fuck up. There was obviously some crazy shit going on ahead of them and they were too stupid/unaware to realize they were putting themselves in the middle of it with their impatience. Like the retards who get pissed people in front of them aren't moving when the light turns green because they see an ambulance coming.
School just started here, so I stopped for a kid in the cross walk. Jabroni comes blasting around me, and almost hit the kid. I didn't think a modern car with ABS could lock up the brakes.
Why didn't he turn off the engine?
Reminds me of this car of old people who had a stuck accelerator. Had enough brains to call 911 and say they are out of control. Got to intersection at end of highway and hit and killed others. Not once in the 5min did it occur to the driver to turn the fucking engine off
Incidentally the last words recorded on the 911 call were "omg the road is ending. Prey! PREY!!"
Maybe he was too dumb to think of that, but most EVs are fully drive-by-wire so I'm not discounting the possibility that he couldn't turn it off.
Yeah, as I just said in my other comment, newer cars don't have keys, and I'm not sure keyless (and electric in this case) cars even let you turn it off mid-drive.
It's certainly possible that it might not let you turn the car off.
It won't let you turn it off in drive stick that bitch in neutral and it will. Car manufacturers design cars to be able to be turned off with a stuck accelerator, people just dont know about it and tend to panic.
Are EV drive modes mechanically linked typically?
Im fairly certain most EVs have a mechanical link to neutral as a safety feature.
Putting it in neutral is just a suggestion to the computer as well. If it locked up entirely, nothing helps in this sort of design. Go back to reliable cable control imo.
Many cars still have neutral be a mechanical connection as a safety feature, I think its just ones with the stupid knob that isnt. There's still an override, otherwise you'd have a tough time getting a tow.
Guess which one the mach-e has?
I just rented a brand new Mercedes over the 4th of July, and it wouldn't let you put it in neutral while you were driving. The stupid gear selector was on a stalk like the turn signal, and I accidentally tried a few times.
They probably have a hidden override, which is retarded. German engineering
Oh yeah, just grenade your transmission. Putting it in neutral fixes the problem without even needing to shut it off. Its like people have forgotten neutral even exists in the age of automatic transmissions.
My Life vs. my transmission is not a difficult decision to make. Emergency reactions should require the fewest steps possible, and a safety measure to ensure I don't trash my engine by accident shouldn't cause a scared person to not be able to save their own life.
Know what it takes to put it in neutral? Moving the shifter. Its literally one step. No brakes required, I've done it on accident before.
Omg that's horrifying.
drive-by-wire, lock/unlock-by-wire too. Teslas that lose power (say, due to a battery fire) cannot be opened with the regular door handles. You have to rip out the upholstery to find a hidden release
Okay, now that is also horrifying. Holy shit.
yeah, avoid EVs like the plague
Avoid autonomous cars like the plague. The autonomy is the problem, not the drivetrain.
True, but sadly it seems you have to stick to older cars to avoid that garbage, which largely rules out EVs.
It's certainly much worse of a problem with EVs because they're all designed by futuristic techbros that want everything tied to Google Home or the equivalent. A common EV story is getting your car bricked by a routine OS update. When's the last time that happened to an ICE vehicle?
my drive shaft has a mechanical connection to my wheels, all of my doors are mechanical except for my rear lift gate, and my car is post 2020. If my battery quits I can still unlock and exit my car using the same door handle. If my accelerator gets stuck I can manually turn the key and shut off the engine. this is not something you can do in an EV with a malfunctioning speed controller.
What? That's ridiculous, no one would do something like that, so I went and looked it up. Here's the Model 3's manual release lever, right next to the window switches, on the door.
I went ahead and checked a different model, the Tesla Y and.... oh.... [Oh dear: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-model-y-got-a-more-straightforward-emergency-door-release-still-not-good-enough-201427.html
At least they changed it.... https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-changed-the-model-y-s-emergency-door-release-again-tough-luck-if-you-need-to-use-it-219273.html
Emphasis added, holy shit.
Wasn’t there a recent case of a woman drowning in a few feet of water in her tesla because none of the doors or windows could operate once it got wet?
“ Details reveal the desperate attempt to save CEO Angela Chao, trapped in a submerged Tesla”
I'm starting to think emergency hammers should be mandatory in EVs at this point.
Also, Chao is why you don't get in your car with a BAC around three times the legal limit. It's also amazing to me that no one in that crowd had the means to break a window, but I guess I just roll with a different crowd that doesn't include zero-skill CEOs.
Window breakers should be mandatory anyway for all cars. It's not like electric windows haven't been known to fail too.
But you repeat yourself
Just had someone in the store rush out, then come back half an hour later. Phone was at 1% and if it died they couldnt unlock their tesla so they had to run to charge the phone in the car.
This is incorrect. For the front doors there's an easily accessible manual door latch inches from the electric one. For the back you have to peel up some rubber from the door pocket - stupid design but there's no upholstery being ripped up
Honestly, uncontrollably fast is probably the way to go. If he had any ability to steer, he should have kept it on the motorway and let the batteries die. At top speed, the car won't drive for more than 10-20 minutes tops.
Even if you can't steer and can't drive, it doesn't mean you can't try to keep fighting for control over the car. Pilots have been dying this way for decades.
I like this spelling of the transcript that implies not they were religious, but that they were some kind of post-apocalyptic highway marauders who had just stumbled upon fresh meat.
Exactly my thought.
Sorry, the car knows better than you. Also, these new fake-Mustang EVs don't even have a keyhole in the door, let alone the ignition.
Show of hands: Without looking it up (and I did for this), how many people know how to turn off a push-button car while it's moving, presuming the software allows you to do so?
Of those of you that do, how many of you are likely to remember that while your car is careening down a highway divider?
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Wrong "pray", but can we get a link to that if you weren't makin' a funny?
I AM THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Please enter the 7 digit code for emergency shutdown authorization. It's right there on page 116 of the owner's manual. No not the one in your glovebox, the one the dealership gave you to keep at home. 🙄 Didn't you memorize it?
Bingo. Thankfully, I only drive cars with a manual transmission, so worst case, I can just throw it in neutral and let the engine blow.
If you're in the stick-shift club with me I can presume you're also driving a car with a key in the switch, not that that means as much these days.
My car actually has keyless autostart, but that is about as automated as it gets for it. No self driving/lane assist shit that takes control away from me.
Lol im a retard
Anyway, im mixing up 2 stories. I found the "pray" people but they arent the old people in runaway car for several minutes before accident.
https://youtu.be/Bx2diBKXN_Y?si=0cOxCXhxFNJbZqd6
And they were back in the day so it was key ignition
Trick question, I wouldn't buy a push to start car without looking that up first to make sure I could stop it in an emergency.
It's not a trick question. You gave a conditional answer that you would know if you owned one.
It's not 100% certain, but we can reckon from this that you don't own one, and that you don't know because you haven't needed to learn.
I don't know how these computer-run cars work. Maybe he couldn't turn it off because the computer sensed the car was in motion and prevented it "for safety"
Any other heavy machinery has an e-stop, Why not an electric car.
Because they're poorly thought out subsidy soaking gimmicks?
I haven't driven a newer car in a while, but not sure how it all interfaces. It almost certainly doesn't have a physical key, as cars seem to have moved away from that, and I'm not sure if you can turn off a new car while driving. There might be, ironically, fail-safes.
So, not sure if the driver panicked in the moment and also screwed up here, or if there was really really nothing he could do.
Either way, seems like a huge issue from the car, as not everyone can be expected to react quickly and rationally, and, cars clearly aren't supposed to do that.
Dude the comments are cooked. All of those fucking retards and paid shills are blaming anything but the vehicle, which is funny because if it was a Tesla they'd be screaming for Elongated Muskrats head.
I really hope whoever decided to name this disaster "Mustang" has been blackballed from the industry. If we are lucky, stories like this will result in them all being recalled and sent to a landfill.
You can tell Ford knows it was a huge mistake too, by how much they compensated with the GTD. That thing is fucking sick.
Self driving made by H1Bs?
"From the video, it’s difficult to determine whether the vehicle was malfunctioning or if the driver was unable to take control for another reason, such as experiencing a medical episode or simply panicking."
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/08/mustang-mach-e-appears-unable-to-stop-before-violent-crash-in-viral-clip/
Now consider government or a bad actor (I repeat myself) would be able to push a button to get your car to do this or worse like intentionally drive off a bridge or even into a crowd of pesky "easter worshipers" to make a point. You'll know it's ready when parts for your current non-electronic car become illegal to buy.
TRANS-MUSTANGS ARE MUSTANGS, FASCIST!!
What is that retarded faggot doing?
Looks like the BlueCruise was fucked.
Absolutely brilliant headline OP. Im stealing that.