If you are referring to my comment about our being able to set a TACC of 5 mph, then not it is not because there is a car in front or other objects on the road. Actually no cars are allowed to be parked on the road in this area, so nothing for the car to. I can get it to do that anywhere in the neighborhood.
It's actually more likely to be the traction control system than the ABS system. There was a paper posted from a scientist who posits that a potential cause of unintended acceleration is a failure in one of the redundant brake switch sensors. I doubt that's what happened here, but the paper did illuminate how the ABS/Traction Control systems have total control over regenerative braking and generally disable It when they sense trouble.
Please take your car to the closest service center (or have a ranger come out) and check your brake pedal. This sounds EXACTLY like the brake switch failure mode.
Yup. But I just took my wife’s 3 out and I agree with you. More often than not, TACC will engage.
What if log of accelerator pedal position is not always related to physical pedal position? Car accelerating while on AP is using physical actuator or electronic/MCU/whatever logic to accelerate? What do logs show when AP is on? Maybe the accelerator pedal position is mimicked in the logs? After all this is developed by humans and prone to error. Never ever discard a possibility of error.
99.9% of “unintended accelerants” will answer these questions wrong because either: they can’t remember, they remember wrong, or they refuse to admit error.
