Unintended Acceleration -- While Parking

I know. Sadly just like all other automakers, Toyota also get their fair share of inexperienced, ill-equipped, incompetent, (shall I go on?) drivers too! Sometime I wish they would find something mechanically wrong or a software bug because in the absence of finding anything, it's scares the "h...l" out me knowing there are many, many people out there who should NOT be allowed to drive.

 

'electronic gremlins' the new amc?

 

I have seen a video filmed in a gen2 Prius showing a woman holding the gas pedal and moving, she keeps applying the gas pedal, then applies the brake. The result is the car goes to idle and slows down.

This lawsuit claims Toyota had not installed brake override into vehicles.

Does the mentioned video not clearly demonstrate brake override in the Prius?

 

bisco,
can you provide a link to into showing Dr. Gilbert's finding was discredtied?

TIA

 

i can't but someone probably can or you can google. turns out, what he did to get the prius accelerator to move also had the same effect on other cars with similar electronic accelerators. so, it wasn't a prius 'glitch'. and no one could see a time when it could happen in a real driving situation.

 

Tons of threads on this. I'm surprised you haven't come across them as you've been a member for a while.

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Blotter/ht_exponentgilbert_100305.pdf

 

correct. and yet, for some reason, not enought for nhtsa or congress to demand a change in electronic accelerator design.

 

I will re-phrase. You may have listened, but clearly ignored. You came in with an agenda against the Prius, and all you've done is speak against them. That's all your responses have been. You didn't speak to my information at all showing the Prius coming in at #26 of UA complaints based on the number sold. I started reading these posts because it is an interesting subject, but you are just a broken record. Debate is not your strong suit. Tell your "friend" to get rid of his Prius fast, and go troll on another board.

 

I'm reading post # 29 from yardman link below, and he talks about trying to cancel the cruise control by hitting the brake.

I guess if you're heading towards stopped traffic that is the thing to do.

The cuise control can be canceled by pulling the stalk towards you (I'm sure pretty much everyone knows this), but if you cancel it with switch with foot off the accelerator, car will immediately slow down

So, if I don't need to slow, I press on the accelerator while canceling with the control switch to make a smooth transition off cruise control.

 

A Catch-22 as the media hysteria have skewed the results (especially after Sikes's stunt). Pepsi being in the top 5 for complaints regarding needles found in their cans means nothing either. Let's see the hard evidence.

 

Correct, especially in light of the media frenzy and in the absence of any proof of SUA or software glitch that led to it. Just as 100,000 reports of needles in Pepsi cans mean nothing in the absence of physical evidence.

 

I haven't gone back and read the entire thread but one thing that I have not seen mentioned (excuse me if it has) is the fact that after the media frenzy at the first of the year, Toyota put together a team of engineers to investigate UA allegations, I believe they called it the Tiger team. Every one that they investigated ended up being driver error. Once the word was out that Toyota was investigating each allegation, the frenzy suddenly died down to a murmur. Yours is the first post on this subject that I have seen on here in quite some time.

How do you explain this?

 

Since acceleration and braking is controlled by a computer chip in the Prius, there could be a "race condition". Where pressing the accelerator and then quickly press the brake (after releasing accelerator) can cause the chip to become confuse etc.

Over 20 years ago, there was the Therac incident caused by a race condition in the logic chip. It was caused when the operator moved through the menu interface too quickly and caused the machine to administer overdose of radiation to patients.

Race conditions are VERY hard to track down especially in logic chips and in the Prius, many variables would affect it that it is extremely difficult to isolate.

 

it's nasa, i'm not waiting for their report to drive my rius again!

 

Considering your stance on global warming I wouldn't expect you to believe anything NASA puts out for publication.