Has anyone with a G37 automatic tried

[telcoman]

to turn off the engine while driving by pressing the push button ignition switch?

Will holding it for three seconds turn off the engine in case of emergency?

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Telcoman

[Poyzinous]

the floor mat issue is common in other vehicles as well. It happened to me in an IS300. But luckily infiniti has a little clip to keep it in place.

[marlin29311]

Why not just dump the car into neutral if that happens? At least no power will go to the wheels...

[jardolei]

Dang, my clip is broken! Am I gonna die?

[370Z/28]

I agree....downshift, blow the engine, live.

I can see where the driver would have panicked, but you would have thought a 911 operator could have instructed him to do that.

What a terrible tragedy.

[suby01]

that would never happen in the G our gas pedals are from the bottom up not like that one.

[Graflo]

This is horrible.... I feel for the families...

I took an older car for a test drive and something went wrong and the engine suddenly went to full throttle and I sat there in shock as the rear tires burned like crazy as the car started to creep through the intersection that I had just filled with smoke... I was 17 and my mother was in the passengers seat... I thought for sure we were going to die from getting T-Boned in this cloud of smoke. I froze... my mum kept her wits and shifted the car into nuetral and we sat there and blew the motor in the middle of the intersection.

We walked back to the dealer and he said that they thought they had fixed that... I almost chocked the life from this greasy bastards neck...

I like to think I was young and would react now but I can understand how this poor guy could have been so caught up in the moment he couldn't think straight.

[Poyzinous]

the v35 has the regular pedal. And the vdc, if on, will kill throttle if you slam brakes with full throttle

[zozoka1212]

But the 07+ is V36 with the pedal from the bottom up.

[Sentientbydesign]

Neutral should have worked.

I've also personally had issues with the floor mat and acclerator pedal on my wife's celica (it happened to have the opposite problem). So I would have checked that.

Also, looks like there is plenty of open fields around the highway. Getting that car into the dirt probably would have slowed it down or at least allowed it to "drift" until someone could come to help.

Poor family though.

[infinitgkid]

Dang, my clip is broken! Am I gonna die?

I guess we're both done for...

[Nazc0]

make that 3 of us

[Kendahl]

Everybody: Permanently engrave this on your consciousness.

The brakes are more powerful than the engine.

This is true for every car that exists. The only exception is a car whose brakes need to be repaired.

If the engine runs away while you are stopped or barely moving, put both feet on the brake pedal and shove like hell. (If the pedal is too narrow for both feet, put one on top of the other.) One of three things will happen:

(1) If you have an automatic, the car will come to a stop and engine RPM will rise to what is called the stall speed of the torque converter. (This technique can be used at the drag strip to get a good start. When the lights turn green, keep your foot all the way down on the accelerator pedal and release the brake.)

(2) If you have a manual with a strong clutch, the car will come to a stop and the engine will stall.

(3) If you have a manual with a weak clutch, the car will come to a stop but the engine will keep running and the clutch will burn up.

Things get messier if you are on the highway at highway speeds. Although the brakes are more powerful than the engine, stopping distances will be very long because the braking force is substantially offset by the engine torque. Brake fade may also be an issue.

If I hear someone say that they braked as hard as possible but the car wouldn't stop, I reply, "Bullsh!t. You just didn't shove very hard." If you can do a deep knee bend, you can shove as hard on the brake pedal as your body weight and probably harder. Most adults weigh at least one hundred pounds. That's more than enough to lock up the wheels on any car.

Thirty years ago, I raced SCCA Showroom Stock. I also used the same car in Solo II which is the SCCA's name for autocrosses. Racing substantially improved my Solo II times because I finally learned, on the track, how to brake hard. On the Solo II course, I became able go to way deep into corners and brake very hard rather than coast into them with only a token brake application.

[Poyzinous]

If you have a manual transmission, throw it in neutral and shut off the engine.

[terrycs]

to turn off the engine while driving by pressing the push button ignition switch?

Will holding it for three seconds turn off the engine in case of emergency?

http://www3.signonsandiego.com...probe/

http://www.sandiego6.com/mostp....cspx

Telcoman

I wouldn't do this unless it were a REAL emergency, but YES .... the engine can be shut down with the car in motion if you press the ignition button multiple times in rapid succession.

Keep in mind you WILL eventually lose line pressure on the brakes after a couple of times on the pedal. I don't recall if the steering wheel locks up either with the car out of park.

[av8or]

i live close to that area... sad to say, another accident happened there 2 days ago.. killed 2 i believe... anyway, i say if auto, throw it in neutral, if manual just step on the clutch... i think there is more than meets the eye here than just floor mats... who knows..