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Originally Posted by mynetdude
how do you almost crash when your car dies? You know the steering wheel is still movable? I don't know about timing belts breaking; but I've witnessed serpentine/accessory belts breaking. I've run out of gas before, yeah so you can't control the vehicle as good as if it had power but you can still control it and not crash and the brake still works you just need to use more MUSCLE (which I guess nobody really has any left cuz of our electronics in the cars?).
I am sorry but I fail to see how a car losing power can just crash unless you're not making any effort to deal with the problem while in motion. You might not be able to get it out of gear but it CAN still move just not as far as it would in neutral.
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I think the main concern is that some of the safety equipment doesn't work when the car is off. If the airbag sensors were active all the time, the batteries would die overnight. To be frank, I haven't been following that closely. Everyone freaked out about this recall and practically ignored that Toyota and Mazda have recalls at the same time.