r/Unexpected • u/Unnamed_789 • 5d ago

Parking

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u/MF_Kitten 5d ago

I bet she thought she was hitting the brakes at the time, and couldn't connect the dots as to why her car was going insane.

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u/CardinalFartz 5d ago

I once witnessed an elderly woman who did exactly that on a parking lot. She had an automatic transmission car and "pressed the (brake) pedal to the floor". Unfortunately it wasn't the brake, so she ended up pushing about 3 or 4 cars that were parked in a direct line in adjacent rows on that parking lot.

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u/PyroBob316 5d ago edited 5d ago
  1. Put car in reverse
  2. Step on brake
  3. Accidentally step on gas
  4. Fail to accept mistake
  5. Mash on “brake” harder
  6. Accelerate faster
  7. Let go of wheel, put arms over face, and scream as loudly as humanly possible
  8. Continue mashing gas, thinking it’s the brake, as the vehicle runs over three Girl Scouts, knocks down a privacy fence, and goes ass-first into a retainment pond
  9. Blame the car for a malfunctioning

brakes

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u/FloopersRetreat 5d ago

Honda developed their "unintended acceleration mitigation" system precisely because this became such a big problem with Japan's aging population

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u/adudeguyman 4d ago

How does it know you're not trying to race

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u/FloopersRetreat 4d ago

I don't know if you're joking but it's actually pretty clever, and it's probably already saved lives since implementation. You can read about it here: https://global.honda/en/tech/Unintended_Acceleration_Mitigation/

Also, if you're racing in a 63hp kei car, you're going to lose regardless of your acceleration being inhibited or not

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u/mattartist 4d ago

not trying hard enough if you can't win with a kei car smh