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  2. Sudden unintended acceleration - Wikipedia

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    One of those vehicles, a 2009 ES 350, was given as a loaner car to California Highway Patrol officer Mark Saylor on August 28, 2009. Saylor and his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law were driving on State Route 125 in San Diego, California, when their car accelerated out of control and crashed into an embankment, killing everyone in the car ...

  3. World's strangest: The road where cars roll uphill

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    The Electric Brae is a road on which cyclists pedal hard to ride downhill, then rest while coasting uphill. Even a car in neutral will look like it's starting to roll up the hill.

  4. Steep grade railway - Wikipedia

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    Another alternative is a cable car in which the car runs on rails, but grasps a continuously moving cable underneath the rails for propulsion, releasing the cable to stop. This is used in San Francisco's famous cable cars. Finally at the steepest end of the spectrum, a funicular railway may be used. Here a cable is used to haul counterbalanced ...

  5. List of gravity hills - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of gravity hills and magnetic hills around the world.. A gravity hill is a place where a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope due to the layout of the surrounding land, creating the optical illusion that water flows uphill or that a car left out of gear will roll uphill.

  6. Cars Struggle on Icy Road in Issaquah Highlands Amid ... - AOL

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    Drivers struggled with icy road conditions in Washington’s Issaquah Highlands on Friday, February 8, after the second storm in a week dumped several inches on the state.This video, filmed by ...

  7. Electric Brae - Wikipedia

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    The road that appears to be running downhill is actually running uphill, and vice versa. Photographs taken from the middle of the brae. The Electric Brae is a gravity hill in South Ayrshire, Scotland, where a freewheeling vehicle will appear to be drawn uphill by some mysterious attraction. The phenomenon is an optical illusion.

  8. Cars Struggle Along Utah Road as Winter Storm Hits - AOL

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    Lone Peak Fire District in Highland, Utah, warned residents to stay at home as a winter storm hit on Monday, November 28.Footage shared by the fire district shows snow blowing across a road in the ...

  9. Skid (automobile) - Wikipedia

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    A burnout is when a car intentionally locks the front wheels to hold the car in place while spinning the rear wheels. The dynamic friction of the spinning tire against the road causes significant amounts of the tire's rubber to be deposited onto the road surface, and increased temperature from friction usually creates dense white smoke.