Thread: Malfunctioning car runs over 7 students, killing one

Originally Posted by Hampsha

Always has to be a Mercedes or some other expensive car. Take the driver to the executioner. Confiscate all the driver's property, auction it off and give the proceeds to the victims. Case closed.

Only because if it were a Toyota Vios it probably wouldn't attract much attention. The tabloid press here are as sensationalist as everywhere else.

May be the case or it could be that the victims were the children of the wealthy. Who knows. Just seems like I see way too many mercedes going in ditches and having accidents in the news and on the roads when I am driving around.

Malfunctioning Driver more like it, beware any Merk on the Super Hi-WAY. Money and power are a bad mix

Originally Posted by Latindancer

I noticed my wife watching this on the Thai news and I asked her to tell me what had happened. Her Engrish is not fantastic, but from what I gather, the car was started when it was not in "Park", which suggests to me that some mechanic hotwired the inhibitor switch, which is a switch on the side of the gearbox that stops the car starting in any gear other than Park and Neutral. These switches wear ( it was an older Mercedes, too ) and the car refuses to start at all, so people sometimes hotwire them. This unfortunately means an automatic car can now be started in gear......more easily than in a manual car, because you're not expecting it.
I had to do this myself once in a Peugeot and just put a wire across a relay in the engine bay ( between the inhibitor switch and ignition), but I was _VERY_ careful to never start it in anything but Park. I still forgot once and it surged forward in gear immediately upon starting.

---- Very interesting and informative, thank you.

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Originally Posted by Latindancer

. An automatic will roll as if it is in Neutral if it is in Drive.

are you sure about that?

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Then he may have thought he'd start it................whereupon it would have surged forward, having been started in gear.

With the engine stopped and gearlever in drive, every single auto I have ever driven will not start when the key is turned.

I think you are talking utter shite. Perhaps not.

Everyone seems to be assuming that the car had an automatic transmission. If it were an older Mercedez and had a manual transmission, it could start and move.
One guess is that the man left the car IN GEAR. If so, being an old car with a low compression ratio, the engine could very well start when the ignition was engaged. Even if the car didn't start it could jump ahead when the key was turned on and the car left in a forward gear. So: maybe, perhaps, possibly ...

Originally Posted by terry57

Another shite story to emerge from the land of Shitness.

A lot to be said for living in a civilized country where the Law applies and that is no where near Thailand.

Fuck off to your favorite socialist nanny state then. You seem to twist every story to bash Thailand.

Lots of nanny states around to hold your hand.

Originally Posted by sabaii sabaii

Originally Posted by Latindancer

I noticed my wife watching this on the Thai news and I asked her to tell me what had happened. Her Engrish is not fantastic, but from what I gather, the car was started when it was not in "Park", which suggests to me that some mechanic hotwired the inhibitor switch, which is a switch on the side of the gearbox that stops the car starting in any gear other than Park and Neutral.
I had to do this myself once in a Peugeot and just put a wire across a relay in the engine bay ( between the inhibitor switch and ignition), but I was _VERY_ careful to never start it in anything but Park. I still forgot once and it surged forward in gear immediately upon starting.

Starting to make a little more sense now, but you only have to turn the key one click to take the steering lock off.

So Latin, was he not in the car when it bolted ?

Also, most people have never driven without power brakes.(engine off, no power brakes) You need to press the pedal 5 times harder to get the same stopping power.

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Originally Posted by Spin

Originally Posted by Latindancer

. An automatic will roll as if it is in Neutral if it is in Drive.

are you sure about that?

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Then he may have thought he'd start it................whereupon it would have surged forward, having been started in gear.

With the engine stopped and gearlever in drive, every single auto I have ever driven will not start when the key is turned.

I think you are talking utter shite. Perhaps not.

Everyone seems to be assuming that the car had an automatic transmission. If it were an older Mercedez and had a manual transmission, it could start and move.
One guess is that the man left the car IN GEAR. If so, being an old car with a low compression ratio, the engine could very well start when the ignition was engaged. Even if the car didn't start it could jump ahead when the key was turned on and the car left in a forward gear. So: maybe, perhaps, possibly ...

Automatics can also be started in gear and move if the safety switch is not working. Pre 2000 anyway

Another thing, if the car started moving and then stalled, but still had momentum, he would be driving with no power steering or power brakes. If hes an old [at][at][at][at], he probably couldnt steer or brake very well if at all.

Originally Posted by socal

Also, most people have never driven without power brakes.(engine off, no power brakes)

Yes "social" good to see you writing your usual inane garbage...IT'S A FACT THAT PEOPLE NEVER DRIVE WITH THEIR ENGINE OFF!

Originally Posted by socal

You need to press the pedal 5 times harder to get the same stopping power.

Quite how you arrived at this figure is amazing, do the calculation in your head did you or with your feet?

Originally Posted by socal

Fuck off to your favorite socialist nanny state then. You seem to twist every story to bash Thailand.

Jeez Socal, You certainly shit your Nappy over that one. Touchy old tart ain't ya.