There's talk again in South Korea regarding the possibility of the latest iteration of the Hyundai Sonata mid-size saloon having sudden unintended acceleration problems after a new incident that took place in Seoul's Seocho district last Wednesday on October 10, 2012, and which resulted in 10 people being injured.
The latest accident in question involved a brand new Hyundai Sonata YF taxicab that was said to have been only two weeks old.
Video footage sourced from a Mercedes-Benz car that was following the Sonata from behind, shows the taxi slowly moving ahead in traffic when all of a sudden, it accelerated and violently smashed into the car in front.
But the episode was far from over as the Sonata started smoking (we cannot tell if the smoke was coming from the engine, the tires spinning or both) and then it went in reverse and hit the Mercedes fitted with the dashboard camera.
According to the Korean media, there's an investigation pending about the accident to see whether the driver was at fault or if, as the taxi cab owner claims, there was a problem with the car's accelerator.
Back in May this year, there was another accident with a Sonata YF in the South Korean city of Daegu that was blamed on unintended acceleration and which sparked a government-led investigation.
12 Comments:
If it suddenly accelerated why in the hell would you then put it into reverse!?
Transmission linkage issue?
Simple - the accelerator was stuck and he tried to move it out of Drive, but put in Reverse, but still with accelerator jammed
it was not an accelerator breakdown but a nervous breakdown I think
unintended (hic) acceleration (hic) problems, offisher.
Virus in the car?....
The driver is so dumb, that he cant turn off the engine....
Considering how the tire burn occurs, I would look at the car's accelerator or engine control. Yes, the driver panicked and attempted park rather than a switch off. People panic.
really? put in Reverse instead of neutral? I guess stupid car, stupid driver, and stupid blogger all go together.
Am I the only one who noticed that the driver of the Sonata never braked...AT ALL? Not once did the brake lights come on in that entire video :S
Driver, where were your the brakes or ignition switch?
No brakes ? That doesn't look like unintended acceleration , if it was, driver would hit the brake pedal right away...
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