>In case of Toyota, the error was not with the driver. Not having ninja reflexes when your car misinterprets throttle input as you are parking is not user error.
That wasn't what happened. People were driving at high speeds on the highway and claiming they couldn't stop. They were wrong.
>1. Twisting the key to turn off the engine engages the steering wheel lock, which might not be a good idea if you're moving fast.
That's why you turn the engine off and then turn the key back on, or don't take the key out. Usually you have to take the key out to engage the steering lock.
Besides, which is worse, accelerating uncontrollably until you reach the car's maximum speed, or killing the engine and not being able to steer?
>2. Modern cars with start/stop buttons might end up with issues that disallow stopping the engine - physical button failure, or software issues related to the button handling.
Wrong. All such designs let you turn off the engine by either holding the button down, or by pressing it multiple times. People just were too dumb to learn how their cars worked.
>3. Diesel runaway - diesels are quite difficult to stop, as they need very little external assistance, and can run on basically anything.
Wrong and stupid. We're not talking about 1960s diesel engines with mechanical fuel pumps here, we're talking about modern vehicles with engine computers and electric pumps. Kill the power and they stop.
>1. Brakes seize up at load, and "full power" is certainly a lot of continuous load.
That's why you press them hard right away instead of trying to modulate the engine power with them....
>2. Brake failure.
Impossible. The odds of having a separate brake failure at the same time as an unintended acceleration failure are astronomical.
>3. The sheer difficulty of holding the car. I have once in my life stopped a diesel van
We're not talking about big diesel vans here, we're talking about regular cars in America which run on gasoline having unintended acceleration problems. Americans do not drive diesel cars, and certainly not diesel vans.
Do you have any more completely irrelevant anecdotes to try to disprove my assertions?
That wasn't what happened. People were driving at high speeds on the highway and claiming they couldn't stop. They were wrong.
>1. Twisting the key to turn off the engine engages the steering wheel lock, which might not be a good idea if you're moving fast.
That's why you turn the engine off and then turn the key back on, or don't take the key out. Usually you have to take the key out to engage the steering lock.
Besides, which is worse, accelerating uncontrollably until you reach the car's maximum speed, or killing the engine and not being able to steer?
>2. Modern cars with start/stop buttons might end up with issues that disallow stopping the engine - physical button failure, or software issues related to the button handling.
Wrong. All such designs let you turn off the engine by either holding the button down, or by pressing it multiple times. People just were too dumb to learn how their cars worked.
>3. Diesel runaway - diesels are quite difficult to stop, as they need very little external assistance, and can run on basically anything.
Wrong and stupid. We're not talking about 1960s diesel engines with mechanical fuel pumps here, we're talking about modern vehicles with engine computers and electric pumps. Kill the power and they stop.
>1. Brakes seize up at load, and "full power" is certainly a lot of continuous load.
That's why you press them hard right away instead of trying to modulate the engine power with them....
>2. Brake failure.
Impossible. The odds of having a separate brake failure at the same time as an unintended acceleration failure are astronomical.
>3. The sheer difficulty of holding the car. I have once in my life stopped a diesel van
We're not talking about big diesel vans here, we're talking about regular cars in America which run on gasoline having unintended acceleration problems. Americans do not drive diesel cars, and certainly not diesel vans.
Do you have any more completely irrelevant anecdotes to try to disprove my assertions?