Electric handbrakes said it would happen!!!

[codprawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8204326.stm

Bloody things should be banned - poor kid had a really lucky escape - what chance has anyone got of finding out how to use one in an emergency???

[Leapy]

"Paige Dean accidently knocked off the car's handbrake..."

How do you 'accidently' leave an 11 year old in charge of a car on the edge of a cliff, put/leave the keys in the ignition, turn the ignition on, put your foot on the foot brake, press a switch and take your foot off the foot brake?

With a mechanical handbrake, you could always just 'accidently' press a button and the same would occur.

Rather than blaming the handbake, why not blame the parents?

[doggypaddle]

Driver error too??? I always park in bottom or reverse gear and on lock pointing to the kerb too.......if the car was in gear or park it wouldnt have rolled away. The other question is given electronic handbrakes are interlocked to the footbrake how can you knock it off accidentally?

[Leapy]

Originally Posted by doggypaddle

The other question is given electronic handbrakes are interlocked to the footbrake how can you knock it off accidentally?

Quite

[Mollers]

Is this not just another car over a cliff incident, where the car happened to have an electronic handbrake, as they are now more common?

[Leapy]

Originally Posted by Mollers

Is this not just another car over a cliff incident, where the car happened to have an electronic handbrake, as they are now more common?

I'm sure you're right... I just don't understand why the handbrake is being blamed as opposed to those in charge of the car

[chewy]

Originally Posted by Leapy

I'm sure you're right... I just don't understand why the handbrake is being blamed as opposed to those in charge of the car

Because Codders started the thread.

[codprawn]

No because it makes it too easy to happen.

Kids love playing with buttons. When she accidently released the brake she didn't have a clue how to put it back on - a handbrake is FAR more intuitive.

And the kid said she was on the passenger side.

i am very sorry I just do NOT trust electronics enough!!!

There was a photo on this very site of a new Pugeot I think which had driven itself into a marina. It was locked - in gear and had a remote start key fob thing. It shouldn't have happened - but it did............

Once when I recovered my boat my mate's dozy father forgot to put the handbrake on in my Disocvery - I was in the boat on the trailer heading backwards down a steep slip. I yelled at him and he managed to jump back in and grab the handbrake - what chance would he have had of finding a small button?

What is wrong with a simple mechanical lever?

[Rogue Wave]

I agree,

no need for it to be electric

[doggypaddle]

Originally Posted by codprawn

No because it makes it too easy to happen.

Kids love playing with buttons. When she accidently released the brake she didn't have a clue how to put it back on - a handbrake is FAR more intuitive.

And the kid said she was on the passenger side.

i am very sorry I just do NOT trust electronics enough!!!

There was a photo on this very site of a new Pugeot I think which had driven itself into a marina. It was locked - in gear and had a remote start key fob thing. It shouldn't have happened - but it did............

Once when I recovered my boat my mate's dozy father forgot to put the handbrake on in my Disocvery - I was in the boat on the trailer heading backwards down a steep slip. I yelled at him and he managed to jump back in and grab the handbrake - what chance would he have had of finding a small button?

What is wrong with a simple mechanical lever?

Dont you mean.....

Once when I recovered my boat my mate's dozy father forgot to put the handbrake on in my Disocvery - I was in the boat on the trailer heading backwards down a steep slip. I yelled at him and he managed to jump back in and grab the handbrake - and i spent the rest of the week bouncing up and down the slipway because of all the backlash in the transmission