ZeroBullChip

I hate to say this, but if the car accelerates unexpectedly, then it is, in fact, a defect. Cars are not supposed to do that. Additionally, some people panic when this happens. You and I may know what to do if this happens, but it doesn't mean everyone else does.

Did the person put a foot on the accelerator vs the brake? Has the throttle system been altered? How do you pin it on the manufacturer? I'm not saying that they can be without blame, but that they go beyond reason to test these things and include fail safes. Even still there can be failures.

You just take the car out of gear. The hybrids use electrical resistance to brake up until the point that it can no longer supply load, then it uses hydraulic brakes like every other car. I am not sure if the friction brake system is full strength, but I can't imagine it not be for fail safe. If a software glitch caused the car to not stop than usually there are fail safe modes. Most new cars these days are drive by wire. If the throttle mechanism detects any fault, the car will run in a fail safe mode only going a couple miles per hour.

It is still the duty/responsibility of the car operator to understand the mechanical and operating aspects of the vehicle and how to handle it in an emergency situation. Without knowing the specifics I obviously can't say for sure, but knowing the lack of morals in the legal profession, I'm sure money is the motivator, let's assign punitive blame one a business when more than likely the driver did not know how to react in an emergency situation.

The only way I can see this being a valid lawsuit is if the manufacturer did not provide a manual that explains how to operate the vehicle. Or there is such a blatant defect in the vehicle that it did not perform as intended with any consistency and the manufacturer was aware of it and did nothing but cover it up. But the level of testing for a new car model these days is so involved that the odds of this getting past an engineer is slim to none IMO. They don't do it like they did in the 70's anymore.

Too bad people that don't know how to drive need to blame the car maker. Result being cars more expensive. Thanks!

A lesson for folks, if your accelerator get stuck or the car does not behave the way you expect it to, pop it in nuetral and pull to the side of the road.

i see you dont understand the issues

the is a defect in the car

Sure it was, it was sitting in the drivers seat.

Too bad people that don't know how to drive need to blame the car maker. Result being cars more expensive. Thanks!

A lesson for folks, if your accelerator get stuck or the car does not behave the way you expect it to, pop it in nuetral and pull to the side of the road.

Looks like a turd flinger...

Not accurate. All UCFers are required to mention freshmen SAT scores or something like that

No more $1 menu someone has to pay the lawyers.

They should be done.

I've never been to a concert in an arena with good sound unless you sit face level with the speaker system. If you are up high, you are going to hear some sound bouncing back at you.

Well with a large wooded area right across fletcher, you can see where it came from. I know in wesley chapel (seven oaks area) there is at least one Florida panther. I had no idea they are this far north, but it has been seen and photographed all over. Out in my neck of the woods in Hudson, there are coyotes everywhere.

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Oh yeah I remember the SW texas state game. First game with a marching band.

Is it like would you rather be a Seattle Mariners fan or an LA Angels fan?

Exactly.

Discuss?

A game for fools, made by fools.

Gophers are for real in north Pasco/Hernando area. They are all over a golf course I play in Brooksville.

And that team would still give UCF's "best" team a run for it's money.

It's way more comical that you find equivalence in being invited to join this conference in it's final death throws with any form of superiority in your cause. I really do feel bad for knight fans and their false sense of pride. For example. In most sports we are currently the worst we have EVER been. In the those same sports UCF is seeing unprecedented relative success. Relative being that head to head, USF would win most series with UCF still with some of our worst teams ever.

You generally can't fall up.

They should not be allowed in the Big East. We just don't need this kind of program at a point when it is hanging on by a thread. Judy should lead the pack to now rescind any offer given for the good of the catholic basketball conference.

yeah. That should get the losing out of the way early so as not to have so many delusions of grandeur. Unfortunately for us we are the opposite. We would beat them only to lose pillow fights to UCONN and Futgers.

They really showed Tulsa who was in charge.

Yeah, if we would have kept playing them, then they would have been exposed.  Lucky for them they stopped playing Big East Teams in general.

We did?  UCF @ Pittsburgh next year and uconn is scheduled for a home and home starting in 2013.  Although Pittsburgh could be considered ACC now.

Over the last few years you did.  During your rise to imaginary prominence, you did not play us or them.  Your record against them and us is not very good.

Yeah, if we would have kept playing them, then they would have been exposed.  Lucky for them they stopped playing Big East Teams in general.

Everyone laughs at USF.  They're a joke.

But we didn't lose to FIU.  So that makes it okay.