Toytoa is recalling cars for sticking gas pedals. What the average person might not realize is that current cars don't have throttle cables but have fly-by-wire systems for throttle control. In other words the gas pedal makes an electrical signal and then the car computer sets the throttle position from the signal.
Now Toyota is planning on adding throttle override systems to the cars where pushing the brake pedal and gas pedal at the same time, would disable the gas pedal. And so legislators are working on legislation to require the throttle override systems on all cars.
Are the throttle override systems a good idea ? I would say no. Adding a system on top of a problem in an increase in complexity of the overall sytem being developed and could be chaotic. Identification and correction of the actual problem is a much better and more efficient strategy. And the cars have ignition switches which the car owners use every time they use the car. Also there are advanced driving techniques of using the brake and the throttle at the same time and this technique has been particularly used by rally drivers on front- whee-drive cars. But the average person might use brake and throttle at the same time just to pull out of a mud-hole.
I don't have much of a concluding statement but will repeat that identification and correction of the actual problem is the best and most efficient strategy.