The whole thing is so clearly Obama’s fault. Throw the bum out.
But apart from that, being a centrist, I obviously know what neutral is and sometimes use it to coast down hills and save a few rpm’s and a little gas consumption. My other car has a clutch.
If you want to convince me that a number of people (regardless of political persuasion) are clueless about many things in relation to driving or to life, you won’t have to try very hard, but one would hope that now that the problem has been well-publicized, that people driving Toyotas, and anyone, for that matter, are now thinking: 1 brake, 2 neutral 3 (maybe) turn off ignition. (You lose your power steering once the engine is off, at least in my old Buick Roadmaster.)
My neice, who seems to be an intelligent person called someone with her cell phone to tell them that her accelerator had stuck (in a Volvo) on the interstate and that she was worried about making a curve/exit combination ahead of her. How the hell she would not have thought of going into neutral etc. is beyond me, but obviously some of the BASICS of what propels us and what stops us in our vehicles is completely alien to a certain subset of the population.
If said situation helps Ford, GM, Nissan etc, so it goes. I don’t think that conspiracy theories make a whole lot of sense in this case, even if a few people here may think that tonight’s sunset is a conspiracy by the Obama administration to deprive us of heat and light.
