NHTSA Wants To Break Your Heel-Toe Braking!
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NHTSA Wants To Break Your Heel-Toe Braking!
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced plans to update the agency's current vehicle safety standards. In order to protect drivers in the event they depress both the accelerator and the brake pedal at the same time, automakers will be required to install a bake-throttle override on new vehicles . . . will apply on all cars, trucks and buses regardless of weight. NHTSA says many manufacturers are already including similar systems on their products.
To rephrase: when you use two controls at once, they want one of them to break the other, instead of both working.
I think I'll be keeping this car for a looooooong time. To repeat my previous assertion: Throttle should be a cable!
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for 99.9% of drivers in 99.9% of situations, this is a good thing. I fully support it.
The aftermarket will come up with ways to defeat it for enthusiasts.
The aftermarket will come up with ways to defeat it for enthusiasts.
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. It was a Nissan Sentra, and was a POS.
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for 99.9% of drivers in 99.9% of situations, this is a good thing. I fully support it.
The aftermarket will come up with ways to defeat it for enthusiasts.
The aftermarket will come up with ways to defeat it for enthusiasts.
it will probably be illegal and in a few years they'll probably have penalties/fines for these kinds of modifications. everything is getting stricter by the day.
i don't know how effective this can be and what sense there is to it. what if some old lady presses both pedals and the brake trips but the gas doesn't and she goes? if there wasn't a device, the brake would have been applied anyway...
