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When Floormats Attack: More Toyota Unintentional Acceleration?
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Edward Niedermeyer
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Published: November 16th, 2009
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Since blaming individual stupidity is no longer in fashion, someone get a lawyer on the phone!
Edward Niedermeyer
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Published November 16th, 2009 5:18 PM
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Damn those floor mats, they can jam the shifter into reverse as well. What an awful design.
Jimmy Doolittle was also a skilled driver into old age. But we knew he was exceptional.
Here's a pic from the outside: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3kC7x8v3a0s/SQss4VAhSrI/AAAAAAAABuA/WKRjDbOe_pA/s1600-h/police+car+under+camry.jpg Yeah, the driver was 70 years old.
I think he was still pressing down on the accelerator. He was probably doing that because he felt like he was falling forward and wanted to stop it. Of course the only thing he could use to brace himself was the accelerator. Why there can't be mandatory driving tests for any over 65 and anyone who has suffered serious brain trauma is beyond me.