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What is worse is it is self reinforcing. Accidentally flooring will push you back and keep your foot floored until you end up in a shopping mall

• m463 4y ago
  motorcycle yes (fingers roll back on throttle), car not so much.
• josephcsible 4y ago
  Unless you're in reverse, it's literally the exact opposite of what you said: the acceleration will try to pull your foot off the pedal.
  • sdwr 4y ago
    The acceleration pushes your back into the seat, and you brace yourself by pushing your foot harder against the floor (gas pedal). It's an instinct thing, not a physics one.
    • josephcsible 4y ago
      But that's not the acceleration doing that. That's you doing that.
      • sdwr 4y ago
        Tomato tomato
        • BenjiWiebe 4y ago
          As a child I drove a lawnmower where the acceleration caused you to lean back, moving the levers back causing you to go in reverse, shoving you forward, causing you to drive forward, ... It was actually the acceleration causing the back and forth (threw me off the seat before I let go causing it to stop).