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In the following sentence:
据一位遭遇拥堵的人介绍说，隧道里一小时只能行进几百米，也去不了厕所，有的人下车走向紧急出口，还有的人把车扔下不管。
扔 means "throw" or "hurl", but "throwing a car away" doesn't make sense. From the context, I feel it means people get out of the car and push it from the back of the car.
My questions:
Is this assumption correct?
If that is true, why doesn't an author write a clearer way, such as:
还有的人把车推下不管。
It is not. "扔" here means something like "discard" or "abandon". They are now suffering from a (terrible) traffic jam, not a faulty engine, so they don't need to push the car anyway.
It means that the people got so impatient that that left the car where they were and walked away.
“Throw” and “abandon” are both correct.
“Throw” has the meaning of “send suddenly into a particular state or condition” in the Oxford Dictionary of English.
And the same is 扔.
