{"id":281891,"date":"2023-10-05T08:13:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T06:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281891"},"modified":"2023-10-05T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T06:13:31","slug":"ev-kidnaps-the-driver-at-30-mph-runs-amok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281891","title":{"rendered":"EV kidnaps the driver at 30 mph, runs amok"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All-electric MG E-motion concept is supercar for millennials<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And you thought your last software crash was bad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Morrison ended up a prisoner in his own new MG electric car that wouldn\u2019t stop. He could steer, but the brakes didn\u2019t work, and he couldn\u2019t turn it off.  At one point he threw the car keys into the police van driving beside him, which had come to help, but even that didn\u2019t stop the motor. This was not meant to be a self-driving car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tragedy was averted this time because it was 10:30 at night, the road was empty and the police had time to stop it. But what if this fault occurred in normal traffic and the EV drove through a red light, or a pedestrian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Rory Tingle at The Daily Mail:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was kidnapped by my runaway electric car<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Terrified motorist, 53, reveals his new \u00a330,000 MG ZS EV \u2018began driving itself\u2019 after suffering \u2018catastrophic malfunction\u2019 \u2013 forcing him to dial 999 and crash it into a police van to get it to stop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Morrison, 53, claims he was heading home from work at around 10pm on Sunday when his new Chinese-made fully electric car began driving itself at 30mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018I have mobility issues, so I couldn\u2019t even jump out \u2013 I was completely trapped inside the car going at 30mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018So eventually three police vehicles arrived and were driving in front of me and behind me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Morrison said: \u2018After trying to shut the car down, my entire dashboard lit up with faults, and then it all went away after a second and just had a big red car symbol that said \u201cdrive safely, stop driving immediately\u201d or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the car was forcibly stopped it still launched itself forward if given the chance. The RAC mechanic plugged in his diagnostic machine and declared it had \u201cpages of faults\u201d and wasn\u2019t game to turn the engine on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we thank our lucky stars that it worked out OK, we have to ask: how do we know this hasn\u2019t happened before<\/em>? It was the first time the emergency call centre had dealt with this issue, but if the EV had crashed and killed the driver before they could call, would the accident investigation squad even look for software bugs, or would they just say \u201cthey ran the red light\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David says: \u201cNever trust a computer you can\u2019t throw out the window\u201d.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming soon to electric cars:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo:\u00a0Marcin Wichary<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Imagine if we brought 100,000 two-ton vehicles from a foreign adversary\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Dennis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*A quote from Steve Wozniak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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