The example quoted needing as much as 175lbs pressure on the brake on the Toyota. We don't know whether the Ipace would need more or less than that but it's substantial especially if needed for some time to bring the car to a halt plus likely an EV will have a more powerful motor. Many people won't be able to generate that power. Even an airline pilot needs time to work through a checklist, make the right responses and would fail when battling software misdirects or misinformation.
Air France Flight 447 - Wikipedia
Armchair critics have a right to be dubious but dismissing this out of hand isn't right.
I've been in two old bangers with brake failure. Fortunately not with throttle wide open as well but stopping a Bently with failed servo from 100 mph on it;s back-up cables was hard work even though I was seriously fit in those days. The second time was a failed master cylinder in a rover SD1 - not brakes at all and going downhill - yes you can get it to stop but not quickly.
I'm agreeing with you even if it didn't come across like that. My main point is that we often read about cases where something has gone wrong with the car and it leads to something unexpected happening which the driver, for whatever reason, can't cope with and then calls the car "undriveable" when in fact it's not as long as you have the ability to deal with the situation.
Those sorts of comments then make other owners fearful that that the same thing will happen to them and they won't be able to cope, when in fact a lot of them will be able to if they understood the situation and were presented with the facts ahead of it happening.
A good example is a wheel speed sensor failure on a Tesla. That throws up a load of errors, reduces power steering and disables ABS and TC. To some drivers, that renders the car completely undriveable and they'd abandon it in the street. To others, they'll just drive it to the service centre to get it fixed (or in my case, fix it myself because I can't be bothered to sit for 4 hours in a SC for a 10 minute job and a £25 part).
Another one is the often quoted unintended acceleration in a Tesla, which has never been proven to have happened. Ever. One reason it won't happen is that there is a safeguard built in which reduces power and warns you if you press both pedals at the same time. So you will always be able to brake the car to a halt if you press the brake pedal, even if something is pressing on the accelerator pedal and you're not very strong. The other reason it's always implausible is because there are two opposing potentiometers (sensors) on the accelerator pedal itself so if one were to fail or go short circuit, the other would be the failsafe. If any of the signals controllong the car's power delivery were faulty, it's going to error out and reduce or cut power anyway.
Yes, there will be circumstances particularly in older cars where something fails and you have no brakes or can't stop the car, but that's not what this thread is about. This is about a modern EV with lots of redundancy and failsafes. If JLR come up with an explanation which proves there is a failure mode where an iPace cannot be stopped I'll hold my hands up as being wrong, but a report on the BBC and a comment from Z-list ex-Big Brother celeb. doesn't make it a fact.
