I have been wondering about this for awhile and I came upon this statement again from other forums and commercial.

So Volkswagen and nissan) are saying: "they have implemented brake override system 5-8 years ago."

Based on the statement, can we make an assumption these volkswagen and nissan knows that their own car have a possibility of sudden acceleration?

If the assumption is true, then can we say that the products from nissan and other automakers are capable of sudden acceleration same as the toyotas?

And toyotas have been misfortunate enough and cost reduction focus that they decide that brake override is not important, therefore toyota has become the "scapegoat" of everyone else.

I just got curious and i am wondering if anyone can give me more knowledge regarding this.

 

Yes that was very....curious.

So anyone who provides a safety feature does so only because there is a known defect to hide/fix?

No, any car that is drive by wire should have one as ANY car that is drive by wire can have a possibility of sudden acceleration, or to be more accurate, a possibility of accelerating when you were intending to slow down. It has been a strong recommendation of the US Government for years that there be a brake override system on all cars, but it was never a regulation, these manufacturers are baasically letting you know that they didn't wait until the government said you HAD to have one before they elected to put safety first.

At least I read it that way.

 

Uhm... That job can be done by any driver. Press the clutch pedal, brake.

 

think AT bse50

 

Uhmmm AT owners could think MT instead!

 

Every vehicle that has a motor is capable of uncontrolled acceleration if the engine controls break or the user gets confused. Before all this hoohaa about Toyota, the statistics of uncontrolled acceleration among all makers actually placed Toyota middle of the pack. All it took was one extraordinary case to get to the media and suddenly there were thousands of (since proven largely false) "me-too!" reports.