Until it happens and someone dies and a few have posted the car died suddenly, one man IIRC said his wife was driving it and it died in an intersection. Just a matter of time before someone dies.
Lol. You keep preaching this, going on about all the death and blood that'll flood the streets because of HPFP failures. The fact is, it hasn't killed anyone. In fact, I haven't heard of it even coming close.
In most cases of power loss while driving, a car carries enough momentum for the driver to move out of the flow of traffic. If you don't have any momentum because you were stopped waiting to turn etc, then unless you stopped in the flow of traffic in the first place, you're generally fine staying put for a few minutes waiting for help.
I've seen a number of cars stalled in intersections. So far, everytime the other light turns green, people just sit and honk. After a moment, others will come up and help push it out of the way. I've broke down several times throughout the years, overheating, flat tires, dead fuel pumps etc. I'm still here.
Further, this inherent risk of being stopped on a road would extend to any cause on any car, not just HPFP failures on VW's. AAA brings fuel to over 100,000 customers that run out on the road in the three months of summer alone. This would be just as hazardous as stopping because your pump failed. Again, that's over 100,000 incidents in only THREE MONTHS reported by only one company. So we know the actual statistic is far higher. In our case, we're talking a couple thousand cars at most over the course of 5-6 years. On your logic, we should see droves of deaths resulting from every other cause of cars stalling on the road.
You keep touting all these failures that WILL happen, and all these deaths that WILL happen, but the fact is, they haven't. You are far more likely to find yourself stalled out on the road for 1000 other reasons, regardless of what kind of car you drive. Your claims are baseless, but such fear mongering and sensationalism finds root quickly because of the inherent expense of this failure and the unpredictability. You can keep up on your tires, you can be sure to never run low on fuel; but aside from modifying the fuel system, you really can't control the HPFP failure.
Don't get me wrong, any loss of human life is tragic. Of all the things that could kill you in a given day though, or any given vehicle, this is not the one to lose sleep at night over, it's just needless hype.
