[Shop-talk] Toyota Pedal Brouhaha

[Drew Rogge]

This reminds me of when my daughter was learning to drive. I wanted to
have her experience just how well brakes could work (sans WOT, don't want
to get into that) to bring a car to a stop. I had her drive out to this
long straight stretch of country road, get up to about 50 MPH and apply
the brakes with a quick steadily increasing pressure, much like threshold
braking. There was this loud thump from the back seat and when I looked
back there was poor Jazz the Airedale laying on the floor with this WTF
look on his face. We had forgotten that he had come along for the ride.

Drew 

David Hillman wrote:
[snip]
> better hold on.  Doesn't matter if you've lifted yet or not.  I also 
> recall my high school driver's ed teacher nearly breaking our necks with 
> his passenger-side brake controls when a girl in my class almost crossed 
> the center-line.  And that was a 1980s Dodge Something-I-can't-recall.