>>What about if he's rigged your car so the ignition won't turn off and he's rigged your gear shift so you can't downshift or put it into reverse?
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>>Or, what if he's cut your key so it breaks off when you try to turn off the engine? Or what if he's stolen your car and substituted an exact duplicate that only goes 240 Kph and the engine can't be turned off or be downshifted. And what if he's rigged your ejection seat so it doesn't work either, or it works, but he's replaced your breakaway car roof with a regular car roof.
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>>Remember the guy is nefarious, so it could happen.
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>No worries then, you're dead anyway, so you may as well enjoy the last wild ride ;>
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>And, BTW, you can cut the engine off but the steering won't lock until you pull out the key - but you don't really have to kill the engine, just shift down and get your foot off the pedal. With the automatic you maybe won't get that much slower, but still, may as well get slow enough to start some friction against the sides of the road (fence, wall, whatever available), which should slow it down even more, and then when the time is right, kill the engine and/or pick a soft target to smash.

Aye, I'd forgotten the lock only operates after removing the key.

The above is my thinking. My automatic has semi-automatic, triptonic, function which could help slow down.

The main thing is, like I said, you don't go on uselessly pumping the brake pedal and careering round the bends.

But the one that annoys me the most is the 30-60 seconds that they carry on after being forced off the road (in a got-brakes scenario), plummeting through forests, up and down ditches, etc. If my brakes were that lousy I wouldn't go on the road with the car anyway!