Another acerebral Toyota driver

Toyota should forget about credit checks when getting customers into cars, and just do an IQ test. I heard the recording of the 911 call a California driver made after his Prianus accelerated out of control. The police had to tell the driver to put the car into neutral.

Unbefuckinglievable. The Toyota problem is proof of Darwin's theory.

From AP:

James Sikes quickly became the face of the Toyota gas pedal scandal after he called 911 to report losing control of his Prius on Monday. His car reached nerve-rattling speeds of 94 mph before an officer helped bring it to a stop.

This guy, Sikes, said he doesn't plan to sue Toyota, and that's a good thing. A lot of people say that -- until some liberal slip-n-fall lawyer shows him the numbers, so we'll see if he changes his mind.

Certainly Toyota needs to fix whatever the problem might be, but individuals who don't know how to shift a car into neutral or turn it off when the throttle is stuck open do not get much sympathy from me. It's sort of like people who spill hot coffee on their crotch and then blame the company that sold them the coffee. This is why I call this blog The Shaved Ape. Humans didn't evolve from apes, we are apes, just with less hair.

If we want a perfectly safe world, we can probably get it, but would we want that? Can you imagine how unenjoyable it would be to drive a dummy-proof car? I read that automakers went to front wheel drive because too many idiots were losing control of rear-drive cars. We ended up with safer vehicles that completely sucked. Here's the thought process: in order to make cars safer, we can run enormous amounts of engine power through joints that turn and pivot! What could possibly go wrong?

It wasn't until traction control came out that carmakers started going back to making better vehicles.

Of course, the better companies -- Porsche, for one -- never stooped to front drive, but they did change their suspensions beginning in the late 1980s so they went into understeer rather than oversteer. They were getting tired of being sued by people who are too dumb to control a rear-drive car.

As usual, idiots and lawsuit-happy assholes are ruining things for the rest of us.