{"id":700493,"date":"2010-03-24T15:54:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:54:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:42:59","slug":"how-does-brake-override-technology-stop-runaway-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700493","title":{"rendered":"How Does Brake Override Technology Stop Runaway Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/Picture-3-thumb-156x136-38521.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>The recent fuss over Toyota&#8217;s recalls has brought a lot of attention to a previously rather boring car feature: brake override. It wasn&#8217;t a very sexy feature until we began reading about throttles gone rogue, taking drivers on a terrifying ride.  Brake override, and its absence on the affected Toyota models, became very interesting all of a sudden. But how does it work? Does it really work? Our sister publication Consumer Reports has a test track and some Toyotas lying around, so they set out to find out.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VZZNR9O3xZM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/video-hub\/cars\/safety\/how-brake-override-stops-runaway-cars\/17188412001\/73466091001\/?EXTKEY=I91ECON&#038;CMP=OTC-ConsumeristLinks\">How &#8220;Brake Override&#8221; Stops Runaway Cars<\/a> [Consumer Reports]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent fuss over Toyota&#8217;s recalls has brought a lot of attention to a previously rather boring car feature: brake override. It wasn&#8217;t a very sexy feature until we began reading about throttles gone rogue, taking drivers on a terrifying ride. Brake override, and its absence on the affected Toyota models, became very interesting all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Weh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801376,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700493\/revisions\/801376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}