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Originally Posted by silvergoat2k6
"Unintended acceleration" can be summed up in two words..."driver error".
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Yes in one sense ie brakes over throttle - or so it was or, if you prefer, as long as a computer cannot possibly affect pedal application and line or caliper pressures ie pad clamping force.
Drive by wire and related introduces new variables - see AIRBUS 300 early development and later - after introduction.
Ironically, on a completely non related vehicle over here, (non GM ) we are actually experiencing something very similiar although much milder in effect - involving what seems to be a combination of relatively minor anomalies.
I'm still playing with it - if you are at rest in drive ( fully warmed up etc ) it will jump a foot or two out in front if your foot isn't very and unusually firm against the brake pedal . Actually thats not fully right all the time. Sometimes with the pedal fully and firmly pushed you simultaneously lose the pedal and experience a milder quick bump which returns right after the jump - this is easy to guess at but nothings panned out - no codes and alot more than that.
Related to and compounding this - or really co factoring the problem is an erratic and somewhat misleading malfunction in the power brake boost system - which doesn't matter until also inexplicably the idle shoots up in a completely different way.
Humidity and or moisture may have something to do with it
Dealer has looked it over and has experienced one half of the problem and the other only weakly - they are completely perplexed - haven't seen it before.
I'm very aware how AUDI got labeled unfairly - in rather close detail.
Ditto GM.