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The OP's incident with a Model 3 sounds similar to another incident with a Model S found at 3 Unintended Acceleration events when parking my Tesla S P in my garage. .

Tesla log data or a Tesla EDR readout will only provide accelerator pedal position sensor data in percent of maximum travel. It will not answer the question I posed above regarding what the readings signify in terms of drive motor torque. Learning this would require a Tesla vehicle pedal map...

In a Tesla data log readout, what does an accelerator pedal reading of 0% signify? Does an accelerator pedal reading of 0% mean that the pedal is released and that zero motor torque is being produced, like it does in an ICE vehicle? Or, considering that the Tesla accelerator pedal is used for...

Your two figures and my figure above constitute the THREE common methods of providing redundant sensors. You are correct that the two methods you showed would detect a voltage offset, caused by a common ground voltage drop, that affects both sensors equally. But the method I showed would NOT...

Here is a way to tell if Tesla vehicles can possibly have sudden acceleration without the driver pressing on the accelerator pedal. I urge some Tesla owner to perform these tests and report back to this thread what the results were. Disconnect the cable from the accelerator pedal sensor and...

I have seen this statement by wk057 before, and have asked wk057 for a clarification of it in a personal message. But he has not responded. Therefore, I will ask again here. If one reads wk057’s document entitled “Tesla Model S CAN Bus Deciphering”, then one finds the following: CAN3, ID...

Here are my answers to each of your questions above: 1. It would be highly unusual to use the exact same 5V regulator for a analog sensor as your main 5V, if for nothing else then noise immunity. Throughout the entire auto industry, 5V is the standard for powering all sensors on the automobile...

No, because the four “peaks” have durations of 1.3 sec, 1.0 sec, 1.0 sec, and 1.5 sec – durations which the Tesla engineer was very specific about. So, if the amplitude sample times determine the peak durations, then peak durations of 1.3 and 1.5 sec would be impossible unless one assumes that...

Here is the corresponding accelerator pedal sensor figure. The sensors have different slopes, but not opposite slopes as you originally stated. And your reference sent me to the following quote by wk057 instead of the one you included in your post: "wk057, Oct 4, 2016 The accelerator pedal...

In a March 2015 article by David Noland of Green Car Reports, he states, “I've found there are two completely different both-pedals-pressed situations in the Model S: 1) When the accelerator pedal is the first one pressed--say, if you're driving along with your right foot on the "gas" and you...

[derekmw wrote: ][/@Belt007, why? The entire premise of THIS thread's original post was that the brake pedal was pressed, but the car accelerated. Regardless of what the title states, the premise around this discussion was that the wife was pressing the brake pedal down but car accelerated...

[EinSV said "][/Odd that you would post a bunch of papers with your theories on the internet but not submit a single paper for peer review. And yes I've read your explanation for that but if you truly wanted your theories to be tested by the scientific community there is no substitute for...

[Mongo said "/Opposite slope pedal sensors are the industry standard ] If opposite slope pedal sensors are industry standard, then why does Toyota use two sensors with rising slopes in their Camry? Also, notice that they are using the same +5V supply and the same ground for both sensors. This...

[The Duke said: "Tough read, but it makes sense. Unfortunately I still have questions. Could the 0.1 sec exact timing be the sampling rate of the data recording allowing a human 0.05 sec variation to be masked? I notice the data points do not ramp supporting the low data recording rate idea...

Twiglett, let's discuss the role of braking in sudden acceleration incidents after we decide if it's possible that the accelerator pedal sensor outputs might be causing the problem.

Mongo said" ADCs can't output a negative value" ] None of the ADC measurements in my figure above were negative voltage values that would cause a negative value of the ADC (which, I agree, is impossible). The negative values resulted from arithmetic calculations using the always-positive ADC...

[Mongo said][/"Changing full scale range does nothing to the calculated output. Calculated position = (A+(FS-B)) / (2 * FS) = (xA + (xFS-xB)/(2*xFS) for any change (x) in voltage."] Below is a calculation of the sensor position for three cases. The first two cases have different scales, with...

That detail was not discussed because it is not necessary. The outputs of the two accelerator pedal sensors are ratiometric, which means that the outputs are proportional to the voltage drop across the sensors. if the +5V supply drops, or if the ground voltage is raised, the sensor outputs...

As a result of the previous discussion, I have come up with a possible explanation for sudden unintended acceleration in Tesla vehicles that also explains how the accelerator pedal sensors can have large outputs without the driver pressing on the accelerator pedal. You can read this explanation...

As a result of the previous discussion, I have come up with a possible explanation for sudden unintended acceleration in Tesla vehicles that also explains how the accelerator pedal sensors can have large outputs without the driver pressing on the accelerator pedal. You can read this explanation...