<VV> Unintended acceleration (no Corvair)

[Brandes, Guy]

When Mercedes had claims of accidents that supposedly were caused by
unexplained and unintended acceleration; the 1st thing the tech
specialists did was pull the rear brake light bulbs.  If the brake
lights were on when it hit something the filaments were deflected
forward due to heat and deacceleration if not then the brakes were not
being applied at the time.
 
Regards,
 
Guy Brandes
 
65 VAIR 140
 
In a message dated 5/8/2008 12:25:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
GBrandes at loebermotors.com writes:
	Audi was having these issues and found where it could
	happen it was virtually impossible to over drive the brake pedal
IF it
	was applied.  When Audi's issues were brought out in the media,
every
	manufacture had people running in claiming that the accidents
that they
	had were caused by unintended acceleration.
 
And when Road and Track tested Audis with video cameras to see what
would happen when the engine surged sometimes (which was the real
culprit) they found that every time one of their drivers had problems it
was because they panicked and did not apply the brakes--as shown by the
video tape--no brake lights.  They thought they were braking but they
were actually pushing on the accelerator.   Of course, given enough
time, they could have turned off the ignition.  
 
I've had a couple of rental Tauruses and one Ford minivan surge on me as
well, but as the superscribe said, when you touched the brake the cruise
cut out.  I think this was a separate issue from the Ford recall for
cruise wiring problems on some models.
 
Audi did have a surge problem--but the public response in America was
all out of proportion to the real issue.
 
As Ralph Nader said at the Washington DC convention, Corvair owners are
just good drivers.
 
Bob Hall



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