Apparently the model of Bentley involved had a problem with accelerator sticking, and an image of the event shows emission of smoke, as if the driver was braking hard against a very powerful engine. coffeeandcovid.com/p/ne…
Brakes are always much more powerful than the engine. Back in the 1980s, when the Audi 5000 was accused of having a sticky accelerator pedal, Car and Driver magazine did some braking-distance tests, both the normal way with no throttle, and also at full throttle. The braking distances were identical. The engine cannot overpower the brakes.
I don't know what went wrong here, but it wasn't that. (The probability that the brakes failed at exactly the same moment that the accelerator stuck is too remote to consider.)
Apparently the model of Bentley involved had a problem with accelerator sticking, and an image of the event shows emission of smoke, as if the driver was braking hard against a very powerful engine. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/new-china-flu-saturday-november-25?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=463409&post_id=139150460&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3m05n&utm_medium=email
Brakes are always much more powerful than the engine. Back in the 1980s, when the Audi 5000 was accused of having a sticky accelerator pedal, Car and Driver magazine did some braking-distance tests, both the normal way with no throttle, and also at full throttle. The braking distances were identical. The engine cannot overpower the brakes.
I don't know what went wrong here, but it wasn't that. (The probability that the brakes failed at exactly the same moment that the accelerator stuck is too remote to consider.)
Yes, taxpayer, I saw that article. It mentions that the sticky accelerator problem had been fixed in the latest models.