Schmerd1948: Interceptor1: Turn off the ignition you moran.

Maybe he should've unplugged it, waited 15 seconds and plugged it back in. Works for my wife's vibrator.

Dang that thing is gas powered? 😂🤣💀 Help a brotha out with a link lol. jkjk.

But really though, I guess China domestic vehicles have different (lacking) safety features but, for the rest of us: Having taken some military truck driving courses, and some deffense/offense driving courses on the taxpayers dime lol (thanks I guess), as well as being a streetracer for years, lemme share some tips if your vehicle becomes unresponsive like that.

Remember that our vehicles will at least have some safety features. Air bags, seat belts, well designed impact zones.

First put your seatbelt on if it's not, duh. Be prepared now for an impact at any time, put the phone and drink down, hold the steering wheel firmly with both hands and sit properly in the seat. Strongly consider dialing 911 on speakerphone, not your loved one, explain location first then conditions.

At this time it's time to consider the vehicle expendable, but your life not. The front of the car directly will have the best impact protect, if you're gonna hit something, hit it directly head on. Don't go hollywood Tokyo drift and eat a lightpole with your side door or some goofy angle.

The parking brake or E-brake is in every vehicle I've seen, a physical cable running directly to the rear brakes. Strongly consider slowly starting to apply it. The brakes are going to get hot, red hot ( I have seen this in person live, with flames lol) Don't worry, they may smoke and fire. In really good vehicles, the E-brake is totally separate physical-only brake system.

DONT TURN THE whole vehicle off and take the key out, this will quickly engage the steering wheel lock. You're gonna need to steer even if the power sys goes out, you can still strongarm it over to the ditch at least. If on a long straight road you can try turning the engine off but rotate the key back to power so the steering wheel lock doesn't engage. You can try going into Neutral and hope for the best.

Again at this point the vehicle is just a lifeboat to be sacrificed. If things aren't going well, strongly consider finding those guardrails or concrete side barriers at the side of the road. In the US right road drivers, if you don't have a passenger, consider cautiously starting to graze your passenger side into the ones at the right side of the road to slow you down. Increasingly forcefully, it should slow you dramatically.

If you get it down to 20mph or under, and everything else is failing, it's time to directly crash head on into something and stop the vehicle. Seat belt, phone down, hold wheel. Good choices are the water trashcan things at offramps for this very purpose, metal guardrails, large trees, ditches, solid rock walls. Directly head on. Bad choices are: bodies of water lol, school buses, other vehicles (unless you got some cops sacrificing their cars to help ya), anything bridge-like or with a drop, fronts of businesses lol.

toddalmighty: R.O.U.S: Heck, most modern wiring insulation is soy-based and delicious to rodents, what happens when the mice chew everything?

Squirrels chewed up my GF's engine wiring and filled the compartment with acorns. Twice. First time cost $1300. second time $1600.

Happened to me too, my last ride was a gorgeous Acura MDX Touring. In pro-environment oopsie, certain years they used lots of wires with soy jackets instead of petroleum. Sounds great! Turns out American rats and squirrels LOVE the stuff lol. Whooopsie! Fortunately I can turn wrenches really well, but had to take the top 1/4 of the engine off, almost down to the combustion chambers, to access 1 farking wire. They even chewed the copper too. So crazy. It would've costed at least $1K at a shop but I did it in a few days for like $30 for the new non soy part.

There's the real soy joke lol.