My 1st-hand experience with "unintended acceleration"

It is not true that unlike a lot of cars (though more do have this coming online) the Prius' brake automatically overrides any throttle anyway? And thus the experience you had: regardless of throttle if it interprets any brake pedal whatsoever throttle is cut. Therefore double protection against unintended acceleration because a) It shouldn't happen anyway and b) If the car's throttle does go haywire for some reason pressing the brake overrides it.

 

Sporin, are you saying the Husky liners may cause accelerator jam? I didn't fully understand the connection between acceleration and the Husky liners. I'd like to have a set of Husky's but not if they're causing this problem.

 

I've looked at this possibility with my Weathertech liners and it would take some real effort to make this happen but since I didn't actually test it out I cannot say for sure. This thread just helps to show why you should always hook your floormats into place.

 

That is an interesting change from the GenIIs. In the GenII, with your foot pushing the gas pedal to the floor (WOT), simply applying brake pressure feels like you have cut power to the car and sent it from WOT to idle.

 

Great! Thanks for clearing up my confusion. I was wondering how the Huskys could be so different from the Weathertechs. My liners are set well below the pedal as well.

 

I have Husky also. I can say there is no reasonable way the mat can possible jam above the accelerator except during installation. It simply runs up too high and is too stiff to come back. Ours may also have "inched up" just a tiny bit, but like Sporin says it puts it further up behind the pedal. This is a risk with any floor mat, oem or not, if it's installed above the pedal it's going to pull the pedal down :0

All somebody here has to do is try and accelerate and brake at the same time and see what it does

 

Your UAE is like 99.44-percent of all UAE's out there.
It's what we in the electronics biz call a Delta-Alpha-Sierra (dead short---no pun intended!) between the seat and the controls....in this case the accelerator.

Unlike almost 100-percent of UAE victims, you fessed up and are trying to teach some of your fellow beans to avoid a similar situation. It's almost a shame really. Winters are tough up there and I'm sure that there are some lawyer's kids that need new shoes.

You may want to consider shipping the car and the mats to the JPL (Space, Stars, Mars, Earth, Planets and More - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) for studies. It may not have been the mats. You're in the conspiracy now.

Watch yer back!!

 

REally? This is the last place I would post about UAE.

 

Glad you're alright and no one was injured.
That's always my worry when walking in front or back of someone's vehicle and they'll have UA.
BTW - is UA a new Webster's word now?

 

If so they will have to add the sub-entry for UAD (the denier version).

 

It's gotta be a TLA (Three Letter Acronym) to get into Webster's.
That's why I chose UAE.
If it's medical...then the TLA has to end in "S" for "Syndrome" or in very rare cases you can use a TLA followed by "Syndrome", such as RUA-Syndrome, for "Repetitive Unintended Acceleration Syndrome", or what we non medically trained persons call: "an idiot."
Those are the rules.

 

What if you had accidentally put the mat over both the brake pedal and accelerator pedal? Now I figure you have to depress the brake pedal to start the ignition, so you might have more easily detected there was a problem.

Does anyone know if you can start a Prius while depressing both pedals? (I guess so because from what you described, that is what happened with your foot on the brake and the mat on the accelerator).

This might be fixed if Toyota configures a Prius not to start or come out of park while the accelerator pedal is depressed.

 

Love it :rockon: A syndrome. LOL

Although I didn't mean to specifically use in acronym form...just wondering if "unintended acceleration" will make it in the big book for 2011. Like "unfriend" did in 2010. KWIM? Joking of course.

 

I know this is an old thread and the issue of unintended acceleration had long ago been put to bed but this article in the UK press has many similarities.

Harrow driver 'called 999 as his out-of-control Skoda sped along a motorway at 119mph' | Daily Mail Online

To those in the US, Skoda is a cheaper, sub manufacturer of the VW Group, mainly using older VW tech in their cost efficient cars.

So was this a guy panicing and pressing the wrong pedal? Not switching the car off despite saying he was trying? Or is there some fault in VW/Skode cruise control systems? Do they use a similar system to Toyota or buy them from the same manufacturer?

 

all good questions. sometimes, it's impossible to find out. now that there has been one report, let's see if they start coming out of the woodwork.