[Mgs] Re. Brake Failure, now Left foot/Right Foot Braking

mgbob at juno.com mgbob at juno.com
Mon Aug 30 13:06:15 MDT 2010


  Driver Error was what Car & Driver wrote about their test results.
Bob




---------- Original Message ----------
From: Paul Root <ptrmgb at gmail.com>
To: Max Heim <max_heim at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: MG List <mgs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Re. Brake Failure, now Left foot/Right Foot Braking
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:26:47 -0500

I remember the US study danced around the cause. The Canadian study just flat
out said "driver error".

On Aug 26, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Max Heim wrote:

> I remember reading an analysis of the Audi "unintended acceleration"
> incidents several years back, and it pretty much determined they were all
> cases of mistaken application of the throttle instead of the brake.
> Apparently people panic and just press harder, instead of trying different
> pedals.
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
>
>
> on 8/26/10 1:02 AM, Paul Hunt at paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
>
>> The people who have been having trouble with Toyotas over the last year or
>> so have almost certainly been driving automatics for many years before.
The
>> Toyota problem seems to be far more serious, although precisely what still
>> doesn't seem to be clear.  The most recent thing I have read on the
subject
>> is that Toyota claim from the analysis of a number of 'black boxes'
>> recovered from crashed cars (!), that the drivers didn't brake at all.
That
>> beggars belief, and even the company putting it out as a cause is almost
>> believable, in that they expect us to believe it.  Either that, or the
human
>> race is getting far more stupid than ever I had believed.
>>
>> PaulH.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> ...  Makes sense since you don't have to
>>> move your foot & leg over.  (And, in the past year more than a few Toyota
>>> drivers have had a major problem doing that.
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