BRAKING WITH TRADITION

[Nightmare]

(An excerpt from the New Scientist.....)

A pedal that works as both a car’s accelerator and brake doesn’t immediately sound like a great idea. On the other hand, braking in an emergency is certainly slower with separate pedals. It takes 0.2 seconds to move your foot from the accelerator to the brake, and at 90 kilometres per hour this adds as much as five metres to your stopping distance. Now Swedish inventor Sven Gustafsson has designed a combined pedal that promises to save lives by allowing the driver to go from acceleration to braking instantly. With the new pedal, accelerating requires an ankle movement, while braking comes from extending the whole leg. Reassuringly, you can’t do both at the same time. "As soon as you brake the accelerator is switched to idle," says Gustafsson. His device, which has already been approved for use by the Swedish National Road Adminstration, could lead to manual cars with two pedals and automatics with just one.
www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991770

Considering the number of people who cant cope with a simple set up, I for one am scared by this idea!

[marki]

I am with you on this one Night, i want to ask WHY bother , it`s development in the wrong area AGAIN

[bosshog]

A little bit pointles, as more and more people are using auto boxes anyway. But then again I *suppose* it could be better for the brain dead (majority) drivers out there.

[Fatboy]

Another wonderful idea from the land that brought us daytime running lights