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 fluid and the brakes will no longer function properly. using the car brake may slow the car down. not everyone has the lever-type brake. the final thing if you have a push-button start, push the button and hold it for five seconds, that s just enough to shut the car down, again, that s in your owner s manual. and finally, if you have a key switch, turn it to the accessory
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 recall for that car. i want to hear what auto analyst lauren fix has to say about this one. she joins us now from buffalo. lauren, great to see you. can you comprehend this? does it sound like it makes sense to you? this gentleman that was driving really seemed like he was paying attention. it s obvious he s seen cnn and knew what to do. whether he put the car in neutral, i don t know. he was tryi
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 cause interference and glitches, and i personally don t want it on my car. so your point is that jim sikes did what is correct. his car would not stop and he reached down to try to get the
tracked her car down, found her cell phone and ipod inside the car. as for the suspect, yeah, another woman was attacked this the very same park on december 27th. police are now possibly linking him to that, and i want p to put this girl s picture up, this is amber duboise, a 14-year-old girl who went missing almost exactly a year ago, and she went missing while she was walking home from school in escondido which is very near that lake that chelsea king went missing from. megyn: this is so troubling. trace is going to be working this story for us in the next two hours getting us the latest, and we re going to go back to him. trace, thank you so much. well, a cop with about three seconds to react makes a decision that nearly killed him. in three minutes, new information on the incredible outcome from this hair-raising crash and how this officer may have saved a life by ignoring his own safety. and new polls just out show a staggering level of distrust for