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Re:Toyota's firmware: Bad design and its consequences by drbawb on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @11:48AM (#6641102)
Oh wow, good point, I hadn't thought of that. "High revs" = "motor going fast" to me, not "wheels going fast."

But I had not considered that this correlation is only intuitive to me because I own a car with a manual transmission.

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Re:Toyota's firmware: Bad design and its consequences by Zancarius on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @09:21PM (#6644692)
I'd imagine the sudden loss of power should be apparent as well.

But then, people can react irrationally (or not at all) in a full on panic.

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