{"id":470336,"date":"2010-03-24T15:54:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003658"},"modified":"2010-03-24T03:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T07:21:43","slug":"how-does-brake-override-technology-stop-runaway-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/470336","title":{"rendered":"How Does Brake Override Technology Stop Runaway Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/Picture-3-thumb-156x136-38521.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The recent fuss over Toyota&#8217;s recalls has brought a lot of attention to a previously rather boring car feature: brake override. It wasn&#8217;t a very sexy feature until we began reading about throttles gone rogue, taking drivers on a terrifying ride.  Brake override, and its absence on the affected Toyota models, became very interesting all of a sudden. But how does it work? Does it really work? Our sister publication Consumer Reports has a test track and some Toyotas lying around, so they set out to find out.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VZZNR9O3xZM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VZZNR9O3xZM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/video-hub\/cars\/safety\/how-brake-override-stops-runaway-cars\/17188412001\/73466091001\/?EXTKEY=I91ECON&#038;CMP=OTC-ConsumeristLinks\">How &#8220;Brake Override&#8221; Stops Runaway Cars<\/a> [Consumer Reports]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent fuss over Toyota&#8217;s recalls has brought a lot of attention to a previously rather boring car feature: brake override. It wasn&#8217;t a very sexy feature until we began reading about throttles gone rogue, taking drivers on a terrifying ride. Brake override, and its absence on the affected Toyota models, became very interesting all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}