Unintended acceleration

[olddog]

I certainly believe people see there chance for 15 minutes of fame or cash in on a law suit. However that does not explain the elderly man and his wife who died at over 100 mph while talking to 911.

Years ago no one believed all the claims that ford had a problem until a cop went to move a cruiser with one foot out side the door. With witnesses. They proved the front wheels were locked and sliding. Ford was claiming foot on wrong peddle and floor matts. It turned out to be a faulty crews control issue.

At WOT manifold vacuum drops to near zero. Power brakes have a check valve in the line but it bleads off fairly quick. If you are running along 70 MPH in cruise, and it goes WOT, you will likely be up to 80 mph before you know it. You try tapping the brakes a couple times first to turn off the crews. The power brakes are gone pretty quick.

When you are absolutely caught off guard and have to react in seconds, it is a whole lot different than thinking about if for an hour and then pointing out how stupid other people are. Granted there is no shortage of stupid people, I just don't think all the victoms are at fault. After all someone designed these cars. The first fly by wire car a saw, I said this is a disaster waiting to happen. Yes planes do it, but they cost millions of dollars. A tripple redundant fail safe design is a small percentage of the cost of a plane. Cars are relatively cheap, high volume, assembly line built units. Bad idea in my mind.