'I was #kidnapped by my runaway electric #car'

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-67005620

He was also asked to hold the power button for a couple of seconds which also failed to stop it and the entire dashboard lit up with faults.

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Police were forced to stop the runaway car by allowing it to slowly crash into their police van.

If you think why didn't he pull the handbrake, then you've never been in a modern electric car. Everything works via software, including the handbrake. There are no more mechanical controls. Since we all know how badly modern #software is developed and tested, as this example impressively shows, the #question remains why there is no #emergency switch that disconnects the #battery from the #engine?

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