Although you might say what you were thinking there is no proof that you actually were thinking what you said you were thinking. My guess is that the DPP would decide it was not in the public interest to mount a prosecution.
Back in eh 60s some apprentices at an aircraft factory designed an a antitheft system for the wages van. Unless a hidden switch was flicked within 3 minutes of starting up the engine would cut out and the steering would go hard right. Needless to say they were told to take it off.
An event that only seemed to happen to people wanting a big compo handout. I drove one for fourteen years, over 300,000 miles. Number of cruise control malfunctions (0).
Most likely cause, idiots who don't understand the "resume" button.
I did at one time have a Golf. If filled with super unleaded (whatever it was called) it seemed OK much of the time. But every so often the revs would move towards around 3000 rpm - speeding up or slowing down as required and that was very unsettling. I only ever used super unleaded when I couldn't get ordinary unleaded. Once I realised what was happening I avoided the super and all was well.
I have always put that experience down to the engine management being unable to cope and switching to some "I can't handle this so I'll revert to some fallback settings".
Obvious urban myth. How would the steering in a 1960's car be made to go hard right? No-one that had the slightest knowledge of car mechanics would be taken in by that one. Be difficult even with todays cars with electric power steering.
But then there's folks here think dealing with nuclear waste is easy.
The days of a steel wire/boden cable going from the accelarator pedal to the throttle device are long gone. It's a copper wire now and you are in the hands of your computer. I
Heh. Excellent urban myth The only thing is, the Citroen sinks/sank to it's lowest level anyway when the engine is shut off. Also the brakes and suspension ran off the same system.
Interestingly, you had no brakes at all if the engine was not running. Handbrake wasn't particularly efficient either.
Only the wealthy had cars back then and most people didn't know any better. And Roy Rogers could unerringly shoot someone down at fifty yards with his six shooter.
If it had rack and pinion steering, add an hydraulic cylinder from the landing gear of one of the aircraft. For any sort of steering, fit a large motor to the steering column, using a worm drive to prevent anyone from being able to resist it.
Any engineer worth his salt could do it easily, given an entire aircraft factory to play with.
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