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Comment Re:There's a button for that (Score 1) 1146

My very first thought when I heard the story about the police officer in California and his family dying because of the accelerator issue was "Why didn't they put it in Neutral and shut off the key?" Even with the fancy fob, if you hold the "Start" button in, it will shut off. Assisted parking is obviously designed by someone whose kid or wife or husband was backing into cars a lot and didn't want them to have to worry about it anymore. ;-) I've had more issues with ABS and Traction Control in my 12 years of driving than I care to remember. Worst of which was being stuck in my steep driveway in about 4" of snow for 10min. Traction control kept killing the throttle and I didn't realize it. When I woke up from the adrenaline-fused anger, I thought "Maybe I should switch this off?" and up and out the driveway I went in one shot. All because my 4WD was in the shop and I had to borrow my dad's Hyundai sedan...

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