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In Toyotas, the accelerator and the breaks are (were, before this) separate systems. The downside is that hitting the break would not cut the gas. The upside
by danielweber 13y ago
In Toyotas, the accelerator and the breaks are (were, before this) separate systems.
The downside is that hitting the break would not cut the gas.
The upside is that you would need two separate isolated systems to fault in order to have out-of-control acceleration. Even if the accelerator system is broken, slamming on the breaks will generally always win at the hardware level.
- pnathan 13y ago> The upside is that you would need two separate isolated systems to fault in order to have out-of-control acceleration. Even if the accelerator system is broken, slamming on the breaks will generally always win at the hardware level. IIRC, I think for the court case, the brakes for the particular model of car could physically not stop the engine if the engine was going 100% acceleration at highway speed.