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Re:A case study of Toyota unintended acceleration and softwa... by jacquesm on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:25PM (#31237274)
> If you're trying to go around corners as fast as possible in a front-wheel drive car you're going to drive with one foot on the brake and one foot on the gas and will apply the brakes and the gas at the same time.

Sure, but that's not normal driving and even though it should be possible this situation should simply never occur outside of a racetrack, a regular driver will move their one foot from the gas and move it to the brake.

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Re:A case study of Toyota unintended acceleration and softwa... by salawat on Monday May 02, 2022 @02:59PM (#31239333)
You're assuming levels of clean abstraction that not only are not guaranteed to rxist, but foolhardy to assume.

It is better to leave options open rather than to lock things behing explicit configuration in the abscence of readily available documentation.

Which I assure you, Service/Operators manuals are not.

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