Scams are always a possibility, but I don't think all of them are.
I've had a throttle fall open on me, fortunately in old Ford station
wagon with a six cylinder -- the return spring popped off -- and that
was alarming enough.
I've also had the throttle stick on the old 72 280 SE, and I would
suspect that you could NOT stop it from speed just by using the
brakes -- I could barely hold it at about 1/8. Certainly, if you do
not slow it way down at once, you will just burn out the pads, and
once they and the rotors are red hot, you won't have much in the way
of brakes at all.
Note that in at least one run-away event on a Toyota, the driver DID
fry out the brakes -- rotors were dark blue.
Peter
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