Originally Posted by archae86
There was much prominence given in the United States in the middle 1980s to incidents in which drivers asserted that their cars accelerated wildly while the driver was "standing on the brakes".
I am very familiar with those incidents. They do not constitute statistics.
Since the Audi 5000 incidents some 20+ years ago, notice that there has been a lack of reports of cars accelerating while drivers were "standing on the brakes".
Apart from a couple of well-known incidents with police cars, in which people were injured by police drivers. Investigated by the NTSB. Turns out to have been a unintended consequence of a drive-train mod that some police districts undertook.
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