>If my car speeds up to 100MPH and I can't stop it, I can die. Is it just me, or is this a design problem just waiting to be solved. Not the accelerator desig

>If my car speeds up to 100MPH and I can't stop it, I can die. Is it just me, or is this a design problem just waiting to be solved. Not the accelerator design, but to counter the fact that although there are numerous ways to either slow down the car or bring it to a halt that consumers simply weren't aware of. Yes, you can shift into neutral. However, drivers didn't realize that. Yes, you can also turn off the engine. However, drivers didn't think of that. I had a friend years ago (college days) in which the brakes in his Trans-Am decided to not do much of anything. Boiled off brake fluid? Bad master cylinder? Overheated rotors? Who knows. Rather than downshift, or put it in neutral, or turn off the engine -- and then wait and use the handbrake -- he figured putting it into a tree at 60mph was his best option. The fact that drivers will not think to employ a variety of methods to slow down the car screams to me that there's something that doesn't exist, that should, that better caters to the average driver's instinctual reaction (which currently is depressing the brake pedal as hard as possible, and not giving up until the car stops). I realize that the vehicle could've taken both brake and accelerator inputs and simply given total priority to the brake, which would've mitigated many accidents, but there are other situations (like my friend who didn't think things through) which probably merit a "panic button" solution.