I've had far more scary moments like that in ICE cars for sure. I told about the time I found the petrol station at Kirkby Lonsdale closed on Christmas Eve, and I hadn't enough to get to Tebay if I'd gone on the motorway. So. I snuck down the A road that parallels the motorway south to Burton in Kendal, found the flyover across the motorway to get me on the west (northbound) side, then went the wrong way down a one-way service road to get to the petrol forecourt of the service station. On another occasion when I made the exact same mistake I did manage to hypermile to Tebay, heart in mouth.
Or there am I in a 1.1 litre Fiesta, standing in the middle of a forest in Bavaria about the size of Perthshire, stammering the word "Tankstelle?" (hastily looked up in dictionary) to a passing cop. (Closer inspection revealed that the petrol station he directed me to was actually shown on the map I was following, but it was in such small print I hadn't noticed it.)