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Continuous light application in order to overheat them. the vehicle could be safely stopped by means of the brake pedal even with the overheated brakes. it's very important to note that the prius hybrid and other hybrids have a self-protective function that acts as a form of brake override. if moderate brake force is applied at the same time that the accelerator is depressed, roughly more than halfway, the hybrid system engine is cut off. fuel is cut off to the gasoline engine. now, as you may know, hybrid systems use electric motors for power and these motors switch back into being generators...

Engine, what connects them is not some sort of a wire. not some sort of connector. >> software now. >> what connects them in the electronics, so if those weren't working it could cause the car to accelerate and toyota has mobilized a team. >> they are going to look in to this car specifically. they've sent technicians out? >> absolutely. and that's what's so interesting about it. a lot of people did complain about this, because toyota dealerships were not aware of the problem, they didn't know how to check to see what it might be. now at least they have a car that they know for sure apparently...

Are sk ral paccelerating. this has been going on since 1957 and the chrysler product, so there are cars all along that have had problems. put the car in neutral is the first thing you can do. if for some reason you can't get it into neutral or you have it into neutral and the car is still accelerating because of an electrical problem, the next thing to do is to stand on the brakes. just like this gentleman did. both feet. put everything you've got. he's a bigger guy, if you are smaller or lighter, you may not have the same brake pressure. the next thing you do is literally boil your brake flui...

Okay. get this, you're driving out on the highway. you go to pass a guy, the next thing you know your car develops a mind of its own. it hits 90 miles an hour. then 94 miles an hour like this guy in california, and it stays there. you smash your brakes. you're practically standing on your brakes. the car is not slowing down. it feels like nothing is even reacting. well, that's what this california guy says happened to him yesterday. his car is a 2008 toyota prius. under warranty because of a floor mat issue. under recall, although he says when he took it in, they didn't tell him there was a re...

Rotor which is the part of the wheel that you look in and see, and that clamps down and slows the car down which is frictional heat, and slows it down. on the prius, it takes the heat and regenerates the battery. there are different systems to do it, but that is the basics of how it does on the prius and on most cars hydraulic brakes. this is not any other kind of brake, because they have been hydraulic since the '30s. contact is not something to be applied to the braking on the cars which have been tested in europe, and we don't need those because of the problems. so many computers could caus...