[Shop-talk] Toyota Pedal Brouhaha

[Mark Andy]

Howdy,

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Doug Braun wrote:
> It would presumably work if you stopped QUIICKLY and COMPLETELY.  But if 
> slowed down to, say 30 MPH, and maintained that speed, you would have 
> the engine in a low gear (assuming an automatic transmission) running at 
> almost full power, with all of that power going into heating up the 
> brakes.  They would burn up real quickly.
>
> The fact that many cars are way over-powered
> doesn't make it any easier.

I'm sorry, but the only people I feel bad for if you've got a runaway 
throttle stuck open and you slow down to 30 mph _and maintain it_ vs. 
bringing the vehicle to a stop (against something if necessary) is the 
innocent people that get caught up in it as Darwin fixes the real problem.

Mark