My first car was a civic and since I was doing lots of highway driving I had an aftermarket cruise system installed. Basically it had this module installed and a physical wire was connected to controlled the accelerator cable. One day I passed a semi on the highway and after passing I realized the car kept gaining speed. I pressed the brakes but that pretty much only stopped me from gaining speed and did not slow me down at all. I thank my lucky stars I had a 5 speed so I shifted into neutral and the car screamed like a banshee so I shut it off and coasted to a stop. I opened the hood and sure enough the cable had wrapped around itself in a way that essentially gave my car full throttle.
Scared the s**t out of me. And that was with a 117HP gutless car. I could not even imagine that happening in a Bentley.
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