MD and you know this how,

You're logically going to get me from point A to point B and tell me that this is not an appropriate subject? That's absurd.

We have no idea if any BMW pedals have stuck, especially if there was a fatality. Who would be left to report?

You're factually misrepresenting the fact that multiple people have died, due to faulty accelerators, and drive by wire. Sure the number is small, but so to is the number of individuals killed in plane crashes per year.

Should we stop caring about those as well?

It's not that we've become too cautious in life, it's that life has become very advanced, with technology increases far faster than some of us can keep up with.

For example 5 years ago, most cars came with ignitions that required a turn of a key, and direct throttle linkage between the pedal and throttle through direct mechanical means.

The average individual buying a replacement vehicle today, will be newly introduced to technologies that were only available on luxury cars a few years ago, such as drive-by-wire technology, and push to start/push to stop ignitions.

There is a need for awareness and not everyone is mechanically inclined or all knowing when it comes to what seem obvious to you: remaining calm and shifting into neutral.

There's no one here in this thread, and certainly no one at Toyota overreacting. There is a design flaw, which is factually known. Your thread assumes an air of arrogance, in suggesting that life is not precious and that those who have perished because they didn't know how to turn their car off in an emergency (which requires 3-seconds of holding the start/stop button down) were subpar, and of below average in terms of their responsibility levels to be drivers of cars in the first place.

MD, a modern lexus, almost every model, save for the SUVS accelerates from 0 to 100 in about 14-seconds on average. Assume one is driving along, at 60 mph, floors it to pass a semi-truck, and all of the sudden the throttle is stuck wide open.

By the time one was aware of a real issue, 2 to 3 seconds later, (the average time it takes for the secret service to respond to an attack on a dignitary during a simulated and real assassination attempt) one would be traveling at 80 mph. 5 seconds after that they'd be traveling over 100 mph, smoothly accelerating up to 120 mph.

Tell me, when in those few seconds is the "average" driver, with kids in the background, or a screaming wife by his side, going to realize to press and hold the ignition switch in for 3-seconds, when he's NEVER done so in the past? I repeat, when he's NEVER done so in the past.

The point is, it's prudent to be safe, prepared, and to spread the word.

Your statement, quite honestly, should be self-deleted.

Your insinuation that because it hasn't happened to a BMW, it can't is nonsensical at best. A modern jet liner the size of the Airbus A300 had never been lost over the Atlantic, but just a few months ago one was, with no communication from the crew, despite safeguards with some systems having up to 5-backup systems.

Machinery and specifically programmed or calibrated electronics can, do, and will fail. It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

I think your thread is irresponsible and should be removed, out of common decency, if for nothing else, than to honor those who have passed away due to the very defects we're speaking of in this thread(some very recently, hence the massive suspension of production, and the halt of all sales by dealers) mandated by Toyota itself.

Failures will always take place, it's to be expected, and one product can ever be made to by humans that will have zero tolerance of failure, it can probably be safe to say.

But that is not the case here. There is a known, widespread engineering defect, that can be fixed, and lives can be saved. So, the right thing would have been to fix the problem when it first became known. The absolute right thing to do, is to now fix the problem after several years of publicity.

I highly recommend you practice the above, failure to do so, flies in the face of your complaint about this thread, in that drives must practice more.

So tell me MD, when was the last time you practiced shutting your vehicle down during evasive driving at 80 mph.? Never? That's what I thought.