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I agree. With a Camry, shifting into N would have immediately remedied the problem. I remember hearing reports claiming: "Shifting to N didn't do anything". Th
by matt-attack 13y ago
I agree. With a Camry, shifting into N would have immediately remedied the problem. I remember hearing reports claiming: "Shifting to N didn't do anything".
The explanation always seemed obvious to me: Non-technical driver experiences UA. In a panic shifts into neutral. Hears engine scream. Thinks, "The car is still going!" and doesn't realize that despite the sound, the car is actually slowing down.
I know this to be a common misconception in my experience. People commonly misinterpret high revs with "going fast".
- drbawb 13y agoOh 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.
- Zancarius 13y agoI'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.