>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 19:52:36 -0000, NY <m...@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> "Commander Kinsey" <
C...@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>> news:op.1fwb8...@ryzen.lan...
>>>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:15:21 -0000, Fredxx <fre...@nospam.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 12/01/2022 17:37, Commander Kinsey wrote:
>>>>>> Why don't cars switch themselves off if they run out of oil or
>>>>>> coolant? It is funny watching them try to keep going though.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
https://youtu.be/zyejT4VPzlE
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A computer will shut down or throttle if the CPU overheats, yet
>>>>>> car manufacturers don't have a clue.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you got a decent car you would know that the ECU will indeed
>>>>> initially go into limp mode and lots of flashing lights warning
>>>>> you of impending damage.
>>>>
>>>> You mean a really modern car. This tech should have been in cars
>>>> 50 years ago. If it can put up a warning light, it can shut itself
>>>> off.
>>>>> The manufacturers daren't cut the engine completely because of
>>>>> potential safety issues.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, because it's much safer to let the engine seize so you skid
>>>> off the road into oncoming traffic. For fuck's sake! A loss of
>>>> power is not dangerous, it's the safest thing to do!
>>>
>>>
>>> A loss of power (or a complete engine-off) *is* dangerous if it
>>> occurs at the wrong moment.
>>>
>>> I had a very narrow escape. My car had been driving perfectly with
>>> no sign from warning lights or the ECU messages on the display or
>>> any change in how the car "felt". I came to pull out into traffic
>>> from a side road, having left a good long gap, and the engine lost
>>> power about 2 seconds after I had started to accelerate from rest up
>>> to the speed of the traffic I was joining.
>>>
>>> Luckily I was able to hit the hazard switch very quickly to warn the
>>> HGV behind me that was rapidly closing on me, and pull over onto the
>>> verge. If the car had behaved as it normally did, I would have been
>>> going beyond the speed of the lorry. There was a bleep at the same
>>> time as the car lost power, and the ECU display changed - but I had
>>> my mind on other things ;-)
>>
>> And if you had an overheating engine, with no cutout, then the engine
>> seized as you were pulling out, the same would have happened anyway.
>> I had the same thing happen to me because the battery died
>> (severely), shorting a lot of stuff out. But it was a very quiet
>> road, so I pushed it back to the sideroad, then when someone
>> appeared, he helped me push it to my destination, which was 100 yards
>> away.
>>> It turned out that the car has a "depollution pouch" (maybe
>>> something like AdBlue) which treats the exhaust gases to reduce the
>>> amount of NOx. When I got the car to "limp" to my local garage, they
>>> said that this pouch had burst. The ECU message said "depollution
>>> failure". It was a fairly straightforward (if not cheap) job for the
>>> garage to replace the pouch, but the car couldn't have picked a
>>> worse possible time to fail.
>>
>> Health and softy shooting itself in the foot.
>
> When is the last time you had a job? Wanker.
When is the last time you had a wife?