“Figured if it happened again I would just stand on the brake pedal with both feet and solve the problem myself.”
Why do you think they want you to use “both feet”?
It’s because you’ll have to take your other foot off of the accelerator to accomplish this.
My mom has a 2009 Camry and while driving the car slips into neutral easily (as a test, no accelerator issue). Maybe I am missing something, but how could a Highway Patrolman not put it in neutral?
I guess it is easy to second guess after the fact and not in the situation...but still...
You’re an engineer so I’m sure you recognize that this is an energy problem. Brakes can only dissipate so much heat before they become ineffective. A single episode of extreme braking with the accelerator floored is not beyond their dissipation limits. But apparently repeated episodes where the car is not fully stopped is. Or let’s say that the car wants to go 100mph but you ride the brakes for several minutes keeping it at 70mph because you’re panicked and don’t know what to do. That is a huge amount of heat accumulating in the brakes — enough to make them become ineffective. So the moral of the story seems to be that you must bring the car to a decisive stop the first time.
“Figured if it happened again I would just stand on the brake pedal with both feet and solve the problem myself.”
Why do you think they want you to use “both feet”?
It’s because you’ll have to take your other foot off of the accelerator to accomplish this.
Uh, there was no one wanting me to use both feet.
Believe me, the car just zoomed from normal cruising, driving speed, to top speed- or at least it tried to.
I chose to use both feet to keep from going 100 mph on a 35 mph road.
I stood on top of the brake pedal.
I don’t know about all the others as I was not there.
I read all the stories about granny mistaking one pedal for the other.
May be.
But that is not what happened to me, twice. I was not trying to park. I did not panic.
Steeping with tremendous force on the brake pedal made the car’s computer release the accelerator pedal.
Others have reported the same.