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Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: December 17th, 2009, 6:46 pm
by bentls
pHaT`eL wrote:I laughed. Why wouldnt you either turn the car off or put it in Neutral?
apparently he did...
so how all those features fucked up at once is beyond me. either hes a stupid **** and said he tried them but didnt, or hes that fuckin annoying someone fucked it all up and tried to kill him..
i hope the latter.. no one can seriously be that stupid.
that annoying.. yes.
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: December 17th, 2009, 7:21 pm
by [Sterling]
Sundeep wrote:It was a explorer Kester lol it's been all over the news. Very clear.
He said it was a terry on Nova, fml.
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: December 18th, 2009, 6:37 am
by LTDHO
bentls wrote: either hes a stupid **** and said he tried them but didnt, or hes that fuckin annoying someone fucked it all up and tried to kill him...
He is a stupid **** for sure
[Sterling] wrote:Sundeep wrote:It was a explorer Kester lol it's been all over the news. Very clear.
He said it was a terry on Nova, fml.
They're tools on Nova, there are articles and pic's of the Explorer everywhere.
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: December 18th, 2009, 8:04 am
by SnyperEB
LTDHO wrote:They're tools on Nova, there are articles and pic's of the Explorer everywhere.
Thats cause your to old and listen to Gold.
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: January 7th, 2010, 8:08 pm
by Troutman
Cruise control terror case 'closed'
By Steve Lillebuen, AAP, January 7, 2010
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A police investigation into Melbourne's runaway cruise control vehicle has been completed, but it hasn't provided the answers the driver was looking for.
A police investigation into Melbourne's runaway cruise control vehicle has been completed, but it hasn't provided the answers the terrified driver was looking for.
Chase Weir, 22, was given back his 2002 Ford Explorer this week after it was impounded at the end of his white-knuckle ride on December 15 down the EastLink freeway with the cruise control apparently locked in.
Police say mechanical experts in the force's major collision unit examined the car for several weeks but determined there was no need to investigate further.
One of the lead investigators in the incident, Detective Senior Constable Paul Baggott, said he was limited in what he could publicly say, but confirmed the case was now considered closed.
"There's no element of criminality," he told AAP on Thursday. "There was damage that was consistent with the events of the day."
Mr Weir said he wasn't disappointed that the police told him they couldn't find a mechanical fault to blame for the terror ride.
"They tested everything and it appears OK, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen," Mr Weir said.
"On that day, the car was in its own world."
Mr Weir has faced a storm of criticism since the ordeal, with some calling his tale of an out-of-control car a hoax.
But the driver says the police have backed up his claims by saying on Thursday that it's not a criminal case.
"I'm happy they've come out and said that. Maybe now a few more people will believe it when they see that police believe nothing criminal has happened."
Officers have told Mr Weir they disconnected the car's battery during their testing procedures.
Mr Weir said he was worried that meant the car's so-called black box that records faults in the computer system, including errors in cruise control, had been wiped clean before police started testing it.
Ford Australia is hoping to gain access to the vehicle to perform its own round of testing as soon as possible.
But the car is now in the hands of Mr Weir's insurance company, which is refusing to hand it over until Ford agrees to provide it with a copy of all mechanical work and testing it will complete.
"I think it's up to Ford to give me the straight answer," Mr Weir said.
In a near-hysterical emergency call, Mr Weir told how his cruise control had become locked at 100km/h and slamming on the brakes only slowed it to 80km/h.
The gears were locked in drive and the ignition key wouldn't turn either, he said.
"Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm gonna die!" he screamed over the phone as he swerved into on-coming traffic.
The operator taking the call, Sgt Marnie Goldsmith, asked him to pull up hard on both the handbrake and the foot brake.
The car swerved to the right and came to a stop, ending a 30-minute and 54km journey.
The car model was part of Ford's largest ever recall for faulty cruise control devices but the company has denied the incident could be linked to the recall.
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: January 7th, 2010, 8:18 pm
by Kenaz
"They tested everything and it appears OK, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen," Mr Weir said.
Sure it doesn't.. Dickhead!
I can understand his insurance company's reluctance to hand the car over to Ford lol. That's probably who the insurance co is looking to recover the repair costs from at this stage.
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: January 7th, 2010, 8:34 pm
by thebeast.
im a bit of a noob but if he dropped it down a gear and the c/c is stuck on it would just stay at the same speed but rev out more and if he dropped it down to far wouldnt it just have a compression lock up wouldnt it.
also if he dropped to into N wouldnt it just rev its tits out and redline...
as i said im a noob tho
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: January 7th, 2010, 11:47 pm
by Rollin
Yeah if he put it in N and the cruise stayed on then yes, it would have hit the limiter until they stalled the engine somehow once the car had come to a stop. If you can't stop the last thing you'd be worried about though is your engine, you'd just knock it in N, get on the brakes and let the engine pop, it's better than crashing.
That said, Chase is a massive dickhead and I really wish the cops would bust him for SOMETHING!
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: January 8th, 2010, 6:14 am
by LTDHO
Oh no, they erased the memory of the 'black box'
Hey wouldn't know a box if it hit him in the face!
Re: Cruise control jammed on
Posted: January 8th, 2010, 9:09 am
by Bipolar
Haha definitely not!
I'd say he doesn't have a man's brain, but most of the women I know wouldn't be that retarded in that situation either.