• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The accelerator sensor doesn’t get stuck, pedal does. The face of the accelerator falls off and wedges the pedal into the down position.

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      7 months ago

      Pedal, not petal.

      Not trying to be an asshole, just a nudge to avoid misunderstandings (although the context is clear in this case)

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        7 months ago

        Given the number of other issues in the post I’m going to guess it was hurried and autocorrected wrong. Happens to me all the time.

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          7 months ago

          I assumed it was speech-to-text. “Off and” = often

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      7 months ago

      I realize it’s the pedal that gets stuck, but the computer registers the state of the pedal via a sensor.

      The computer should be smart enough to realize something ain’t right when it registers that both the accelerator and brake pedals are being pressed at the same time. And in that case, the brake should always take priority.

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        7 months ago

        The stories I’ve heard around the recall have been saying that the brakes override the accelerator in the cyber truck.