UI Comment

["Al Powell" <APOWELL@agcom.tamu.edu>]

Alexei M Voloshin <Alexei.M.Voloshin-1@tc.umn.edu> said:

> Interesting that not only Audi customers had problems with UI. It seems 
> that 90% of service bulletins for Acura legends of 88-90 era and same age 
> Toyota Cressidas have to do with unintended acceleration as well. They had 
> some real problems with shift locks and sport mode switch electronics 
> which caused that. 
> I wonder why they were never publically disgraced???!!

Dunno.  I heard that the #2 car for reports of UI was the Nissan 
300ZX.  Here's what I note they have in common - they are both cars 
with very nice heel-and-toe pedal positioning.  At the time, these 
cars were the status models which were being bought by people 
graduating from cars like Olds Cutlasses....and my theory is that in 
the automatics, these drivers simply were not AWARE enough of their 
cars' design to hit the correct pedal.  More aware drivers don't do 
this - but the classic US dufus driver who only knows the general 
location of the ignition key and steering wheel is fully capable of 
hitting the wrong pedal.  I find this behavior more LIKELY to have 
occurred in drivers moving from "ho-hum" cars into status models 
which had cpabilities which they as drivers were not competent to 
exploit.

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