Toyota To Offer Acceleration Suppression Function To Combat Confused Drivers

Toyota’s newly-developed Acceleration Suppression Function was designed to counter the misapplication of the accelerator pedal, and will launch in Japan this summer as part of an upgrade to the carmaker’s Safety Sense package.

The new tech will first be offered as an option on new vehicles in the Land of the Rising Sun, before making its way to other markets around the globe. The Japanese brand will also retrofit accelerator control systems in certain existing models sometime this year.

cidflekken - 2/3/2020 2:54:39 PM

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Is this still an issue for Toyota? I thought that ended in the 80's.

atc98092 - 2/3/2020 6:05:02 PM

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The Audi non-issue was the '80s. The Toyota non-issue was fairly recent, but I don't recall exactly when. Both cases it was either mis-application of the pedal or floor mats getting tangled in the pedals.