Advanced Driver Chase Weir has married!
http://www.news.com.au/business/wom...ew-lexus-sped-up/story-e6frfm1i-1225833895131
A WOMAN has choked back tears as she recalled phoning her husband to say goodbye when her Lexus hurtled out of control at 160km/h down a busy freeway.
Recounting her terrifying brush with death before a US congressional panel probing Toyota's recall crisis, Tennessee woman Rhonda Smith said she had expected to die during the incident in October 2006.
Ms Smith was at the wheel of her new Lexus ES 350 and had just merged with traffic when her car suddenly and inexplicably surged from 70 to 160kmh.
Despite Ms Smith frantically slamming on the emergency brake and even putting the car in reverse, the vehicle continued to speed down the freeway.
(yeah yeah, let's use the hand brake to slow a car doing that speed and slam the car into reverse instead of neutral - real smart - using the brake pedal would have helped)
"I figured the car was going to go its maximum speed and I was going to have to put the car into the upcoming guardrail in order to prevent killing anyone else and I prayed for God to help me," Ms Smith said.
"I called my husband on the Bluetooth phone system.
"I knew he could not help me, but I wanted to hear his voice one more time."
But at that moment, Ms Smith said "God intervened" and the car came very slowly to a stop and her ordeal was over.
"God" helped by moving her right foot from the accelerator pedal to the brake pedal. He works in strange ways.
Yet the Smiths' relief that a tragedy had been avoided turned to anger in the weeks and months after the incident, when they claimed they were treated with indifference by Toyota and safety investigators.
Their disgust mounted when, after repeated demands, Toyota finally responded and appeared to suggest the owners of the vehicle were at fault.
"When we finally forced Toyota to respond in writing, we received a five-sentence analysis stating, and I quote, 'When properly maintained, the brakes will always over-ride the accelerator.'
:lol: +1 to Toyota
"Well, we know that's a lie, and we were outraged that Toyota would suggest in that statement also that the brakes have to not properly be maintained in order for that to happen and the car had less than 3000 miles on it."
Actually Mrs Weir they're suggesting that you're a flapping idiot who pressed the accelerator and not the brake pedal and are too incompetent to drive a shopping trolley but clearly this went straight over your head. How stupid are you for not spending some of the considerable amount of time chasing Toyota to actually find out that no production car can come any where close to overpowering the brakes.
Ms Smith said they took their complaint to the US National Center for Dispute Settlement but described the proceedings as a "total farce".
The local field technician for Lexus participated in the hearing by speakerphone despite being based only an hour away and testified that Ms Smith had "caused this problem by standing on the brakes while spinning the tyres".
Undeterred, the Smiths took their case to the Federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
But although the agency sent investigators to probe the circumstances of the incident, the Smiths said neither NHTSA nor Toyota took their case seriously.
Eventually, and reluctantly, they gave up their case in 2008.
"The results have been tragic," Ms Smith told the hearing.
"And today, I must say shame on you, Toyota, for being so greedy and shame on you, NHTSA, for not doing your job."
Stupid people of the world rejoice, there are fellow stupid people out there that will believe you, pay you compensation and give you your five minutes on the soap box to prove to the world that your really are truly stupid.
http://www.news.com.au/business/wom...ew-lexus-sped-up/story-e6frfm1i-1225833895131
A WOMAN has choked back tears as she recalled phoning her husband to say goodbye when her Lexus hurtled out of control at 160km/h down a busy freeway.
Recounting her terrifying brush with death before a US congressional panel probing Toyota's recall crisis, Tennessee woman Rhonda Smith said she had expected to die during the incident in October 2006.
Ms Smith was at the wheel of her new Lexus ES 350 and had just merged with traffic when her car suddenly and inexplicably surged from 70 to 160kmh.
Despite Ms Smith frantically slamming on the emergency brake and even putting the car in reverse, the vehicle continued to speed down the freeway.
(yeah yeah, let's use the hand brake to slow a car doing that speed and slam the car into reverse instead of neutral - real smart - using the brake pedal would have helped)
"I figured the car was going to go its maximum speed and I was going to have to put the car into the upcoming guardrail in order to prevent killing anyone else and I prayed for God to help me," Ms Smith said.
"I called my husband on the Bluetooth phone system.
"I knew he could not help me, but I wanted to hear his voice one more time."
But at that moment, Ms Smith said "God intervened" and the car came very slowly to a stop and her ordeal was over.
"God" helped by moving her right foot from the accelerator pedal to the brake pedal. He works in strange ways.
Yet the Smiths' relief that a tragedy had been avoided turned to anger in the weeks and months after the incident, when they claimed they were treated with indifference by Toyota and safety investigators.
Their disgust mounted when, after repeated demands, Toyota finally responded and appeared to suggest the owners of the vehicle were at fault.
"When we finally forced Toyota to respond in writing, we received a five-sentence analysis stating, and I quote, 'When properly maintained, the brakes will always over-ride the accelerator.'
:lol: +1 to Toyota
"Well, we know that's a lie, and we were outraged that Toyota would suggest in that statement also that the brakes have to not properly be maintained in order for that to happen and the car had less than 3000 miles on it."
Actually Mrs Weir they're suggesting that you're a flapping idiot who pressed the accelerator and not the brake pedal and are too incompetent to drive a shopping trolley but clearly this went straight over your head. How stupid are you for not spending some of the considerable amount of time chasing Toyota to actually find out that no production car can come any where close to overpowering the brakes.
Ms Smith said they took their complaint to the US National Center for Dispute Settlement but described the proceedings as a "total farce".
The local field technician for Lexus participated in the hearing by speakerphone despite being based only an hour away and testified that Ms Smith had "caused this problem by standing on the brakes while spinning the tyres".
Undeterred, the Smiths took their case to the Federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
But although the agency sent investigators to probe the circumstances of the incident, the Smiths said neither NHTSA nor Toyota took their case seriously.
Eventually, and reluctantly, they gave up their case in 2008.
"The results have been tragic," Ms Smith told the hearing.
"And today, I must say shame on you, Toyota, for being so greedy and shame on you, NHTSA, for not doing your job."
Stupid people of the world rejoice, there are fellow stupid people out there that will believe you, pay you compensation and give you your five minutes on the soap box to prove to the world that your really are truly stupid.
