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What do you call it? It's not a gas pedal because it burns oil. Oil pedal?
... and what people think is a gas pedal is the throttle which determines how much air the engine ingests, and in response, how much fuel to add.
... and what people think is the throttle these days is a pedal position sensor where the driver can suggest to the computer what power level they intend, and the computer decides both throttle opening and quantity of fuel to add.
I was giving quite a few moments of "full throttle" yesterday driving in the snow with my daughter, and the traction control overrode my suggestion and inserted its own.
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