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Federal regulators plan to require automakers to design a brake-throttle override system into future vehicles to reduce the risks of high-speed, unintended acceleration.
The proposal by the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a result of a highly publicized 2009 crash of a Lexus ES 350 and a subsequent flood of complaints about incidents of unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
Federal regulators plan to require automakers to design a brake-throttle override system into future vehicles to reduce the risks of high-speed, unintended acceleration.
The proposal by the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a result of a highly publicized 2009 crash of a Lexus ES 350 and a subsequent flood of complaints about incidents of unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
Most vehicles have drive by wire throttle, which means that the controls needed to add this are already there. The rest is a matter of software programming. Mercedes, Chrysler, VW, Audi and Porsche already have it. BMW has had it on all cars for more than a decade now, and on some models for almost two. BMW's system, as an example, allows for performance starts using gas/brake. Because it's a software component, it can be programmed to consider certain factors.
I disagree entirely with regulating it. If it's regulated, it will be regulated for shopping mall parking lots, not tuned for performance oriented drivers who might actually use both controls at one time.
Over the last few years, there have been a number of articles from mainstream press and automotive journalists, about this. It started to be a hot topic around the time of the San Diego crash of a Lexus ES350, followed by other complaints. This crash is still publicized, even though the driver of the car involved did not switch the gear selector to neutral at any point.
Great, a media driven "crisis" creates another needed "safety device."
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