My breaks went out! Could have crashed in to cross traffic! Plus I could not accelerate!

Probably a figment of your imagination. Are you sure it was your breaks? If so, then it was definitely a figment of your imagination.

If you want to get an H1 Hummer, be sure to get the H1 Alpha.

 

You need to move someplace warmer. :madgrin:

 

I'd trust my life to a Huffy than a Hummer.

 

The Force,

File a report with the NHTSA and demand that Toyota recall the
weather... and just to be safe, the climate as well.

But why stop there? The fundamental problem is that the Earth's axis is
at an angle to the plane of its rotation around the Sun. Obviously, the
solar system is broken. Pretty soon the sky will be falling.

There really is only one, 100% effective solution.
* Einstein was wrong, God does play dice with the universe.
* Mankind itself is proof.
* "Free will" does no absolve knowingly taking leave of your senses.
Write the Pope and demand that he recall the Big Bang.

Now go back to sleep, there are no monsters under the bed.

PS: Before you sell your car, can I get the rear wheel skirts and
aero front wheel covers? I think they're too way cool to be wasted
on some schlub of a buyer.

(Daniel, yes, I know, "There is no God." Gimmie a break will ya?
I'm just paraphrasing this famous guy, whom I must admit had
far too many bad hair days and needed tonsorial help in the worst
way.)

 

I'm sorry, no offence intended, but I find your description very hard to believe.

If this "break [sic]" problem actually happened, you would be onto your Toyota service department pronto, or reporting your situation to the relevant authorities, rather than posting this here. The fact that you haven't mentioned that you done either of these things smells fishy to me.

Besides, the recall is on NHW30 Prius models, not your 2006 model.

 

Did somebody hack into "The force's" user account? I find it hard to believe this post was indeed written by him.

 

Uh, Spin and Au, can't you detect his tongue placed firmly in cheek as he types?

 

Yes, that's the only other possible option .

 

My teeth are worn down a bit more after forcing myself to read that.

Hopefully you can get a "brake" by fixing your "breaks".:wacko:

 

Brakes!!!!!!
Please... please... please... I'm not trying to single you out, it's all over the place.

 

Hey, mgb4tim, don't brake a blood vessel getting so excited!

 

I've experienced problems very similar to the OP's, both in my Prius and in other cars. I remember one Christmas eve when I had the same problem with my boots: The ice on the road in front of my house was so slippery that you couldn't stand on it without sliding down the hill. Crampons would have been appropriate.

Pulsing brakes and lack of acceleration are the result of very slippery roads. One of the "problems" with my 2006 Prius is that the combination of VSC, traction control, and ABS effectively mask slippery road conditions. Often I don't realize that the roads have become slippery until I see other cars in the ditch.

My Prius does a very, very good job compensating for lousy road conditions. I have to remind myself to look for warning signs; otherwise I can be surprised to find that I am driving on ice, and the limits of physics will ultimately prevail.

I've said this many times before, but I'll say it again here: There is only so much that technology can do to make up for bad roads. Lack of traction is lack of traction. If you don't have friction, there isn't much a car can do about it.

Tom

 

I had a similar experience. I was pressing on the accelerator and the car simply would not move! No matter how hard I pressed - nothing! Not only that, but it mysteriously seemed to have shrank. So I tried pressing on the brake, and the entire brake pedal had disappeared! Clearly Toyota screwed up this one.

 

Clearly you should have pressed harder.

For those of us old enough to have cut our teeth driving manual transmissions, did you ever reach up to clutch an automatic and hit the brake with your left foot? That was always good for a shock, and easy to do with older American cars with the wide brake pedals.

Tom

 

Sounds compicated maybe some simplification is in order?

Newton's laws of motion are often stated in layman’s terms for simplification and easy recollection as:

• First Law: "An object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an external force" or "A body persists in a state of uniform motion or of rest unless acted upon by an external force."
• Second Law: "Force equals mass times acceleration" or "F = ma."
• Third Law: "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

It's always fun to experience physics when driving on ice...

 

...which is mostly the First Law, at least until the crash.

Tom

 

That's the 2nd and 3rd law.

 

Man I wasn't sure if he was joking or not until i saw the price tag for the car.

Oh btw: I think your inability to stop was caused by the addition of that 5 ton battery pack. Clearly your braking system, and not the road conditions, is undersized to meet your braking demand.

 

Oh give me a ...

Who taught you how to drive? If you want to stop the car, use the brakes, not the breaks. Try that next time and I'll bet the car will stop.