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Hondas with "unexplained" braking. Pretty serius.. NHTSA investigation
It seems that the Feds have just initiated an investigation for some Honda
models that have experienced unexplained... STOPPING. Per a NY Times story: N.H.T.S.A. said that including the complaints made to Honda and those filed with the agency it found 185 examples of "unexpected braking of varying duration, including several allegations of rapid decelerations from highway speeds to near stop in highway travel lanes." http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012...-faulty-brakes to which I wrote the following comment: Seeing this story now explains an incident I witnessed a month ago. I was driving on a major highway (3 lanes in each direction) cruising gently near the speed limit in the right hand lane. Numerous cars, of course, passed me. One came up alongside as if to pass, then slowed down. I figured he'd simply changed his mind. But when I looked back I saw him just sitting there in the middle lane. I pulled over to the shoulder as soon as I could and called 911 to report this _very_ hazardous situation. (The less I say about the 911 call receiver the better...) While I was just out of view of the stopped car I saw another one coming in my direction which had swerved, sideswiped the center median, and then slid over to the shoulder. I finished my 911 call and started walking back. After a bit I saw there was someone already there with flashing lights, so figured they had it under control. - now for the kicker... about ten minutes later I got a phone call from the police officer asking me what I'd seen. He explained that he was with the swerver and he wanted to verify that there had been a car just sitting in the road... (By this time I guess the "stuck" car had gotten moving). - the swerver's car was totalled, but he walked away. Shaken and stirred. __________________________________________________ ___ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] |
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Hondas with "unexplained" braking. Pretty serius.. NHTSA investigation
danny burstein > wrote in
x.com: > It seems that the Feds have just initiated an investigation for some > Honda models that have experienced unexplained... STOPPING. > > Per a NY Times story: > > N.H.T.S.A. said that including the complaints made to Honda and those > filed with the agency it found 185 examples The NHTSA gets hundreds of thousands of "complaints" every year on a multitude of "problems", almost all of which turn out to be baseless. Until the recent Toyota gas-pedal/floor-mat thing, it was customary for the NHTSA to refuse to respond until at leat a thousand complaints had been received for the same issue. The 1,000 threshold is the point where an actual pattern of verifiable problems begins to emerge out of the "white noise" of false reports. Unfortunately, media and activist bullying in the wake of the Toyota panic has resulted in the NHTSA wasting time with the low-volume "white noise" reports. So, those 185 examples? Meaningless, at this point. -- Tegger |
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