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Default Accelerator stuck wide open while car is going fast: what shouldyou do?

On 22/07/2018 23:23, TMS320 wrote:
On 22/07/18 22:11, NY wrote:
This question was posed in a video reconstruction of an incident in
the US.

You were offered three choices:

- yank on the handbrake - put the car in neutral
-turn off the ignition


Get the carpet off the pedal


The trouble is that you're probably catching up the traffic in front
really fast. Looking down at the carpet doesn't occur to most people.
They are too intent on gripping the steering wheel.