"We're just fed up with all of it. Our careers are ruined and life is just not good anymore." That was from Patty Sikes, wife of James Sikes whose runaway Prius made headlines from last week.
ON THE OTHER HAND, there is this from Michael Yaki, an attorney and political consultant writing in the City Lights blog at the San Francisco Chronicle:
If, indeed, the San Diego incident is found to be a hoax, it is both a sad commentary on our ambulance-chasing culture and the small-minded greed that drives people to place not just their safety, but the safety of others in peril. And it trivializes the lives of those who were lost due to fatal flaws in their cars.Inside Line blog thinks the whole thing was BS. [Bolding mine.]
For one, anybody that has ever driven a Prius knows that it never "jumps" forward no matter how hard you press the pedal. It ability to accelerate is so modest that we find it hard to believe that anyone would be startled by its thrust.And Inside Line video shows that the Prius can be put in neutral at high speed. And the car is easy to stop.
Secondly, this driver not only had time to call the police after it "ran out of control" he managed to drive the car for another 20 minutes until the police showed up. How out of control could the car have been if he was driving on a busy highway for nearly half an hour?
Finally, contrary to the news report shown below, the CHP officer never helped the Prius slow down. The official CHP report says the officer's car never came in contact with the Prius until the two cars were stopped on the side of the road. So in other words, the driver of the Prius eventually came to a stop all by himself.
a Thanks to the Internet, independent bloggers and testers, this mainstream media attempt to slander Toyoto isn't going unchallenged.
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