Cruise control breaks, car stuck at 100km/h (60mph)

[giant384]

yes we do you silly bastard

where?

 

[Raziaar]

where?

The first modern roundabout in the United States was constructed in Summerlin, Nevada in 1990,[3] and roundabouts have since become increasingly common in North America.

There is actually a roundabout here in Texas where I am if I remember correctly. Not in my city, but over in Plano.

 

[Higlac]

Well, they are taking a huge mess of traffic lights in my city, and making a huge mess trying to build a roundabout. If you catch the lights wrong during rush hour, it literally takes 5 minutes to go 200 yards.

 

[Solaris]

I would have thought you yanks would call roundabouts circulators or something.

 

[Saturos]

So what would happen I guess is with the throttle stuck, it would blow the engine if you put it in neutral -

Putting the vehicle in neutral disengages the engine from the driveshaft, silly sweatpants who obviously didn't learn how to drive in a standard.

BTW, I like to add that any modern vehicle between 1980-present is garbage anyways, so it doesn't surprise me. I mostly gut most of the electronics in any of new shit I'm forced to drive. New Fords and Cryshits are definitely guilty of faulty wiring and electronics.

 

[Seppo]

put it on neutral and then floor it. see what happens after a while.

 

[Operational]

Couldn't they have just found him a nice big roundabout to circle rather than keeping him on the motorway?

I don't think I've ever seen a roundabout large enough to handle going round it at 100km/h.

 

[Eejit]

I've seen plenty!

 

[VirusType2]

AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHABWAHAHAHAHAH

What?

Yes, also the Earth is round. Crazy but true!

Putting the vehicle in neutral disengages the engine from the driveshaft, silly sweatpants who obviously didn't learn how to drive in a standard.

So? How would that stop you from revving the engine? What kind of nutshit brain do you posses? The driveshaft simply puts the power to the wheels.

I've been driving for 19 years, and have blown 2 engines. One threw a rod, one blew a piston. Both times, I was driving the car hard, but I hadn't even reached red-line -- which is where your engine revs to when you press the gas pedal to the floor.

The only thing that stops an engine from continuing to rev higher and higher is a rev-limiter, usually a bit past red-line, sometimes right on it.

The higher precision of the engine, the higher the revs can go. Formula 1 engines rev to nearly 20,000 RPMs, a Ford SUV more like 6,000. Despite the highest precision obtainable by today's machining standards, Formula 1 engines generally only last a few hundred laps before they destroy themselves.

If you know any ****ing thing about engines, you know that the higher the rev's, the bigger role engine vibration due to imperfect machining comes into play. Too much vibration and the engine will destroy itself.

Life is not a video game guys, where you can give it full throttle and have the engine bounces off the rev-limiter for eternity to no ill effect.

put it on neutral and then floor it. see what happens after a while.

Thank you.