MG car kidnaps driver, what do we think?

[autumnsum]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12592047/...

Custard?

[sunnyb13]

it's a possibility.

Happened a few times in the states with a teslas.

[JackJarvis]

I was going to take a wild guess at some form of user error but the compo face has me convinced.

Edited by JackJarvis on Wednesday 4th October 11:28

[MrGTI6]

A colleague has the opposite problem with their 72-plate electric MG. It won't move and hasn't done for a few days. It's supposed to be getting collected on a low loader this afternoon after they failed to turn up yesterday.

[sunnyb13]

reading the article

"After that, a police officer jumped into my car and did something which seemed to keep the car still."

[GT9]

sunnyb13 said:

reading the article

"After that, a police officer jumped into my car and did something which seemed to keep the car still."

Pressed the brake pedal?

[kambites]

It is certainly known to happen on occasion, but it's not unique to EVs. Of course in older vehicles with things like conventional ignition barrels, you can just turn them off.

The foot brake should always work though, even if it loses its servo assistance.

Edited by kambites on Wednesday 4th October 11:19

[Evanivitch]

GT9 said:

sunnyb13 said:

reading the article

"After that, a police officer jumped into my car and did something which seemed to keep the car still."

Pressed the brake pedal?

Actually pressed it, not just tickled it.

Even electric handbrakes can be used in emergency, but the means of operation varies between a 5s hold and repeated presses.

[autumnsum]

sunnyb13 said:

it's a possibility.

Happened a few times in the states with a teslas.

Did it though?

[sunnyb13]

autumnsum said:

sunnyb13 said:

it's a possibility.

Happened a few times in the states with a teslas.

Did it though?

interestingly teslas response that the data suggested no brake pressure was applied.

Saying that it there was data to suggest brake pressure was applied then the car would have stopped.....either that or every tesla would need a recall....

[mick987]

sunnyb13 said:

reading the article

"After that, a police officer jumped into my car and did something which seemed to keep the car still."

The full statement is quite different to what you quoted

After that, a police officer jumped into my car and did something which seemed to keep the car still.

'After I got out though, they tried moving their van and the car kept going - so they had to sit with the van there for ages until the RAC got the

[lost in espace]

He may have engaged traffic jam assist, but even that is disengaged by pressing the brake. Don't believe a word of it.

[TheRainMaker]

The brakes can't overpower the motor traveling at 30mph?

It seems odd the officer jumped in it, and it stopped.

I wonder if he was pressing the footrest

Edit, reading the article, it does seem the car just shat itself, still odd how he couldn't stop it by the breaks, though.

Edited by TheRainMaker on Wednesday 4th October 11:53

[5s Alive]

Couldn't turn it off, brake or even select neutral and apply the parking brake? Hmm ...

I look forward to MG finding carpet mats on top of the go pedal.

Maybe it's Skynet...

Edited by 5s Alive on Wednesday 4th October 12:06

[autumnsum]

The last time this happened in the news, the guy was found to have set off several speed cameras and made up a similar excuse to try to get out of it.

MG will have their engineers all over this car, and I can't imagine how all the systems could have possibly failed at once. It would be absolutely astonishing if true and mean a full physical recall of every car sold.

[Merry]

Having had one of these ZSs, in fact identical to his, I would put money that if he'd pressed the P button it would have stopped. It may have also done so if he stuck it in neutral.

It certainly did when I pressed it accidentally when parking once.

Never had an issue with the cruise or anything disconnecting when pressing the brake either. You could also cancel it by pushing the cruise control stalk away from you too.

My guess (and it is uninformed so could be bks) is that something went wrong with a sensor on the brake that tells the system to disconnect and the driver didn't know it could be cancelled with the stalk.

Or it could be bks, the driver could have had foot trouble and the error messages were as a result of the collision rather than a problem.

[GT9]

Just need to rearrange words in the article to get the most likely explanation.

Man on phone to wife who can see where he is asks him to explain why he is driving thorough red light district at 10 pm instead of returning home from work.

Man concocts bullst story.

[Zetec-S]

Sounds like the plot to Speed 3...

[richhead]

There has to be more to this story, im not sure how any car could be sold if its ever imposible to stop it, maybe im wrong, but it does sound like user error to me. Be nice if we ever hear what the fault was if we ever do.

[-Cappo-]

It wouldn't stop. but it slowed down to 15mph for a roundabout?

And when it ran into the back of the police van, what, the wheels kept spinning?

Hmmm.