Monthly Archive for November, 2009

Shanghai Alleycat Race

Bicycle race in Shanghai this week­end. Registration still open. Go to shanghaialleycat.com for details.

Hope I don’t end up dead last. Very likely though.

Tip for stuck accelerator pedal

ToyotaI saw on the news that sev­eral peo­ple have died due to the gas pedal in Toyota cars get­ting stuck. The news doesn’t say, but this is clearly only hap­pen­ing on au­to­matic trans­mis­sion cars be­cause on man­ual cars you just clutch in to dis­en­gage the en­gine and tranny.

Automatic own­ers: if your ac­cel­er­a­tor pedal gets stuck,
SHIFT TO NEUTRAL.

In most (maybe all?) au­to­matic cars, when your shifter’s po­si­tion is in D, you can gen­tly push for­ward on it and it’ll pop into N. You don’t even need to press that gear shift button.

Get fa­mil­iar with it. Could save your life!