GM to Install Brake-override Systems in New Vehicles

Thank you Toyota!

Brake override? Are you kidding, or are you freakin' kidding? Do we now have sudden unanticipated braking problems that also need to be corrected? Doesn't anybody actually read this stuff?

Ditto. Once the government gets involved, stick a fork in us...we're done. This probably is meant to retard the engine, or other wise de-power, or de-couple it some sort of way to avoid the dreaded "sudden unintended acceleration" syndrome (SUA). Of course, in the vast majority of these rare SUA cases, the driver is jamming the gas pedal to the floorboards, thinking it's the brake. A lot of good the brake override will do. So...thank God for government for having all of us pay for a "fix" to protect us from ourselves. GM just sees the handwriting on the wall with Toyota. The SUA syndrome is certainly not new. Google the Audi 5000 from 1982-1987. Rayzer

MARCH 10, 2010 PAGE 1! - Prius gas pedal blamed for N.Y. crash HARRISON, N.Y. -- The gas pedal in a Toyota Prius is being blamed for another accident. Harrison police said a 56-year-old woman smashed a 2005 Prius into a stone wall Tuesday after a stuck accelerator pedal "shot" the vehicle forward. The floor mat had been tied to the seat base with plastic ties and had pretty much been ruled out as the cause of the accident, acting Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said. Joseph N. Leff, the owner of he Prius, said this morning that the family's housekeeper was driving the car. She suffered a knee injury and is out of the hospital. She has driven the car many times, he said, and is "very competent" behind the wheel. "It was clearly the automobile and not anything else," he said.

(March 29, 2010, PAGE 1,000- A Harrison, New York, Prius crash was under investigation by Harrison Police, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Toyota after the driver of the car said that the vehicle accelerated without her touching the pedal. However, the solid findings of the investigation revealed that the NY car crash was caused by human error, not a mechanical problem…In this case, a housekeeper in Harrison, New York, said that she was driving slowly down her driveway when the accelerated on its own, drove across the road, and struck a brick wall. However, after NY authorities examined the car and the car's black box, they determined that someone was pressing the gas pedal 100 percent at the time of the crash and that the brake was not used at all. In many instances, this could just mean that the driver confused the two pedals.)