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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls
You know, my driver ed teacher taught us what to do in the event on unintended acceleration. Tap the gas pedal to try to free it. Failing that, shift to N, key off, coast to a safe stop.
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What everyone - starting with the idiot designers at Toyota - seems to be missing is that you can't do the "key off" part because these cars have those stupid pushbuttons instead, where you have to do something non-obvious like hold down the button for three seconds to turn the engine off.
Even then, the pushbutton is not an unconditional power-off immediate stop, but (like computers these days :-() a command to the software to think about shutting down the engine. So if there happens to be a bug in that part of the software, the driver might be frantically trying to shut down the engine, but the car's ignoring the command.