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Originally Posted by jon applespeed
As symphathetic as I am to someone who had a runaway, I don't buy her story if that is the case. Maybe she reached a maximum of 100 mph, not 100 mph sustained. If you've ever found a stretch of open road and floored it, you know you it is very fast. Brakes are strong enough to overwhelm pretty much any engine. Was it a hybrid? Maybe the brakes weren't giving her full power. If it wasn't a hybrid and the brakes were working normally, I don't see how the brakes couldn't stop the car. This is true for any normal car.
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I believe that at higher speed brakes have great difficulty overcoming a full throttle. There is much more force required (due to Physics) and the brakes can heat up and become impaired.