Not just a tool booth but a empty stretch of highway, too.
Correct, and I’m not the only one making assumptions; others in this thread are assuming that he’s a speed demon looking for excuse. We don’t really have any proof one way or the other execept Renault’s claim that there was nothing wrong with the car. But are they telling the truth? What we need is a report from an independent entity.
Question: Why couldn’t he put the car into neutral? Judging from this pic here:http://www.renault.com/img/gamme/images/velsatis_int4.jpg , the car’s auto box has a standard PRND layout with an additional position for sequential changes. Nothing extraordinary. The driver has some explaining to do.
I am also having a hard time buying that he could not turn off the engine bit.
So just how does this work, When they built the car they started it at the factory, shipped to the dealer idling, you buy it and have to leave the piece of shit running the entire time you own it?
Gas mileage must suck.
LOL! 
To start the car, you have to insert the keycard in a slot on the dashboard. Then, you have to depress either the clutch or the brake and at the same time press the START/STOP button on the dashboard. That’s all.
To turn off the engine, you have to keep the START/STOP button pressed for about 5 seconds. (removing the keycard won’t turn off the engine).
If the keycard’s battery runs out of juice, then you can use the tiny key that’s hidden inside the keycard.
That’s how the keycard looks like http://www.renault.ua/img/megane2/key.jpg
Again, not in the article. Please don’t just make stuff up.
So I don’t understand why he didn’t do that.
It’s in both follow up articles that I linked. The police evacuated the area around the tollbooth.
Correction: it’s in the Expactica article.
Maybe he did.
Still think he’s telling the truth?
Renault sues driver of ‘runaway car’
Was there ever any doubt that this guy was full of shit?
If you’re addressing me, I never said he was. You, however, keep sounding like you never bothered to click on any of my links in this thread. That Forbes one in #35, for example.
FTR, IMHO all this boils down to is a big case of he said/he said - notice how Renault’s “independent investigator” doesn’t even have a name. The only side I see as being completely honest here is the police.
Wow, so you already knew they found nothing wrong with the car, and you still believe that lying douchebag. Hey, did you hear they took “gullible” out of the dictionary?
[QUOTE=TellMeI’mNotCrazyAnd now is as good a time as any to mention that every time I see your name I read it as “Sping Ears” instead of Spin Gears, for some ungodly reason.[/QUOTE]
You’re not alone, in fact, until you spelled it out, I have always wondered where he got the name “Sping Ears” and what it could mean.
Derrrr
Lute Skywatcher, who are you? Have you had your screenname changed recently? 
I’m starting to think we should have a sticky for any name changes, because they’re so hard to keep up with.
He’s Jeff Olsen, though.
[James Earl Jones]Do we have a learning disablity here?[/JEJ]
I don’t believe him or Renault and will not until there is concrete evidence either way. I knew Renault said nothing was found wrong with the car, which is SOP for any manufacturing company. Ford never admitted any culpability with their cruise control problems but made the recall anyway. Oldsmobile lost a suit WRT sudden accelleration and filed a countersuit. At this point, Renault’s stance sounds like the typical CYA bullshit.
It would be funny if, through some miracle of miracles, The Mirror is the one with the accurate account of the end of Monsieur Dequiedt’s Wild Ride.
Yeah, somebody does. Not me, though.
That’s the best you’ve got? In that suit, the car accelerated 120 feet in reverse and into a tree while she was backing up. We’re talking about a guy who drove for like AN HOUR OR SO, supposedly unable to stop the car. Every year, thousands of sudden acceleration complaints are filed, and time and time again, the vast majority are found to be driver error. Funny coincidence that the Audi 5000 all of a sudden had a huge drop in reported cases of sudden acceleration right when they installed an interlock that made it impossible to shift into drive with your foot on the accelerator pedal. Duh, gee - wonder what was causing that sudden acceleration?
The number of things that would have had to fail simultaneously for this guy’s story to be true is a virtual impossibility.
What’s the story on Audi 5000?
I’m wondering if somebody took out a rather large insurance policy on this guy?
Then stop acting so dense.
Nice strawman.
For that to be true, there must be some that aren’t driver error. I’ve been saying for this entire fucking thread that this could be the case here.
Sheesh, I feel like I’m pullin’ teeth.
