{"id":236,"date":"2010-01-27T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=236"},"modified":"2016-02-28T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:33:59","slug":"toyota-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Toyota recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Toyota <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/nov\/29\/business\/la-fi-toyota-throttle29-2009nov29\">thinks<\/a> it has a drive-by-wire software bug now.<\/p>\n<p>And it is just now installing the &#8220;smart gas pedal.&#8221; What is the &#8220;smart gas pedal&#8221; and what&#8217;s &#8220;smart&#8221; about it, you ask? Watch&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/07\/smart-gas-pedals-may-solve-floor-mat-problem\/\">Smart Gas Pedals May Solve Floor-Mat Problem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Christopher Jensen<\/p>\n<p>Some automakers \u2013 primarily European \u2014 are using an unusual method to reduce the chances of unintended acceleration from something like a floor mat getting tangled up with the accelerator: smart gas pedals.<\/p>\n<p>If the vehicle is moving and both the gas and brake pedal are being pushed at the same time the computer tells the engine to ignore the gas pedal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an additional safety feature,\u201d said Thomas Plucinsky, a BMW spokesman. \u201cThe brake takes precedence.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, really, the brake takes precedence. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was obvious and necessary that the design of any system with safety concerns should <a href=\"?p=192\">produce a safe outcome<\/a> in the &#8220;failure&#8221; state rather than an unspecified outcome. Guess I was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Toyota thinks it has a drive-by-wire software bug now. And it is just now installing the &#8220;smart gas pedal.&#8221; What is the &#8220;smart gas pedal&#8221; and what&#8217;s &#8220;smart&#8221; about it, you ask? Watch&#8230; Smart Gas Pedals May Solve Floor-Mat Problem By Christopher Jensen Some automakers \u2013 primarily European \u2014 are using an unusual method [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[566,567,574,570,569,573,572,148,571,568],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christopher-jensen","tag-failure-state","tag-floor","tag-floor-mat","tag-gas-pedals","tag-outcome","tag-precedence","tag-smart","tag-solve","tag-toyota-recall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}