While the joke is funny, I just had this happen to me while going down the road, the plastic fitting on the vacuum pump cracked so no vacuum was going to the brake booster. I am a big guy and I had to stand on that pedal to get the car to stop. There was no way I could stop that car in a hurry. Luckily I was the only one on the road otherwise I would have been trying out the air bags. There is no way that my wife could have stopped the car had she been driving. What annoys me is that no trouble indicator came on at all, since this vacuum pump supplies all the vacuum for the everything, why didn't the OBD system give me a warning? The OBD knew about the problem when queried. In my mind there is a single point of failure in the barke system; you can crack a fitting or blow a fuse and lose your brakes. I have now lost confidence in the most important safety system of this car, the brakes. I am considering replacing the vehicle.