Re: Russell Weller - ''You should have gotten out of the way. You saw me coming.''
- From: Alan Baker <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:42:49 GMT
In article <SkWNg.465$Ka1.430@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Arif Khokar <akhokar1234@xxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/state/15506651.htm
He added he would call as a witness the nation's foremost expert on
''pedal error'' to testify that in a moment of panic a driver who hits
the accelerator by mistake will keep pressing on it, expecting the car
to stop because he thinks he is stepping on the brake.
On rare occasions, I might think the car is in a forward gear instead of
reverse. As soon as I feel the car start moving in the wrong direction,
I take my foot off of the accelerator and hit the brake. I certainly
don't floor the accelerator thinking that it'll stop the car.
Because you're not confused as to which pedal you're using.
But pedal error does happen. Someone gets distracted and puts an
automatic transmission vehicle into gear, it starts to creep, so they
put their foot on the brake -- only it's the accelerator. It starts to
creep more, so they push harder. And so on.
The telling part about unintended acceleration accidents is that they
don't happen in manual transmission vehicles...
--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
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