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How do you know? Toyota sent an expert to look at the car that accelerated yesterday. How do you know they didn’t find the floor mat jammed into the pedal?

I have a 2004 Prius, and the floor mat pegs somehow fell out, and the mat was moving all over the place, and getting in the way of the pedal. We replaced the pegs, but I bet a lot of people don’t.

THe pedal is pretty small, and the front end goes to the floor, so it’s pretty easy for the mat to get over top of it and hold it down. Hasn’t happened to me.

Now, I don’t know if the mat is the problem or not, but I’m not ready to pronounce that it isn’t. I’m interested in what Toyota found out from the car from yesterday — it’s a perfect case.

The car was stuck on, the guy shut it off while it was stuck on, and it hasn’t been started or moved since — so the codes should be stored, and if there was a physical issue, it would still be there.

I’m nervous about the fly-by-wire nature of cars. It bugs me that I floor the car, and because the wheel slips it stops giving it power for a second. I wish they had spent the extra couple of bucks to put a “brake overrides gas pedal sensor” circuit into the car, especially since they already have a brake switch to shut off the cruise control.