DaveP: Anyone still holding a grudge against Ford for the Firestone rollovers?

Yes. Ford spent more effort trying to throw their supplier under the bus than they did admitting to and resolving their part of the problem. I’ve bought Firestone tires ever since; not so with Ford.

djquick64: Every company needs to make sure these electronic throttles shut off when the brake is applied. I have read far too many articles about recalls lately and read several different places many car companies have that fail-safe in their cars already. I also saw an article claiming to be quoting NHTSA reports on unintended acceleration by three car brands: 1-50,000 toyotas reported acceleration issues, 1-65,000 fords reported acceleration issues and 1-500,000 gm cars reported acceleration issues. I don’t know how accurate this report was, but 1 report is too much,eliminating people that reported, “the harder i pushed the brakes, the faster the car went.” Anyways, back from my tangent i just went off on, gm needs to make sure the electronic throttle has a fail-safe that activates when the brake is depressed.  

My advice is to be careful with knee-jerk reactions, lest you create a new problem.

The first person who stabs the throttle to pull out into busy traffic, then gets T-boned because the override circuit detected that the driver touched the brake (whether or not they really did) and disabled the throttle will make the engineers wish that they had thought the problem through more thoroughly.

Matthew B:
It doesn’t have to quit at 15 MPH.In rail applications with AC motors, regen / dynamic takes the train to zero speed.  

Yep. With a controller, you can generate to zero RPM.

mitch: They are getting the flack now because they are #1.

Hybrid owners who will be celebrating their 10th year and 200,000 miles in 2010 have a bullseye painted on them.

That comes will the territory, not at all surprising what they represent would come to question.