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Sudden acceleration is more likely to result in a (deadly?) crash for drivers with little experience Very few people, regardless of how long they've been drivi

• ericwaller 17y ago
  I think it's more that experienced drivers are presumably more defensive and therefore more likely to avoid situations (tailgating, etc.) where a sudden acceleration would be tough to recover from.
• bad_user 17y ago
  If I got plenty of experience noticing I have no breaks in situations where I really needed them ... does that count? (drove a piece of shit of a car for quite some time) I also ended up in situations where my instinct or experience told me to accelerate instead of pushing the breaks. This happens often. Got plenty of experience driving on glazed frost. I even crashed once because of the car skidding ... went off-road, with the car rolling over a couple of times, and me and the other passenger survived with minor injuries. From that experience I learned that whatever you do (besides wearing a seat-belt) you have to avoid trees. IMHO, more experienced drivers are better, and I've seen some pretty good instincts coming from 40-50 year-old or so acquaintances. I really don't know what I would do with a sudden acceleration problem. I would probably try to remain calm and wait for it to recover (pushing the acceleration / brake to trigger events, try to stop the engine), and try not crashing. On a side note ... that's why I don't like cars with automatic transmissions. If my current car experienced a sudden acceleration problem, I could just take it out of gear or do an old-fashioned motor-brake.