📰 Auto News GM to prevent brake torque with new safety measure?

[KaMaSuTrA]

GM to use brake safety measure worldwide

DETROIT – General Motors says it will install a new brake safety measure that can prevent unintended acceleration on all its new vehicles worldwide by 2012.

The announcement Monday comes as federal regulators consider making the technology mandatory on new cars and trucks after Toyota's big problems with vehicles that can speed out of control. Congress is also exploring the issue after a series of hearings last month on Toyota's recall of millions of vehicles over gas pedals that get stuck or trapped on floor mats.

GM has not had major problems with unintended acceleration, but the company said it was taking the step as a means of reassuring customers about the safety of its vehicles.

A brake override reduces power to the engine when the driver steps on both the brake and accelerator. It should also slow a vehicle if the gas pedal is stuck.

GM plans to install the software for the system in the electronic throttle control systems of newly manufactured vehicles. The automaker already used it in several models in the United States, mostly high horsepower vehicles like the Chevy Corvette.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which regulates auto safety, is exploring whether to require the brake override on new vehicles. Toyota has already said it would use the system in most new Toyota and Lexus vehicles by the end of 2010.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100405/ap_on_bi_ge/us_general_motors_brake_override

Thanks a lot Toyota!

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[andcbii]

They should just make all cars manuals.

 

[blakbearddelite]

So much for being able to do a burn-out in the water box...

 

[blakbearddelite]

Though from a safety standpoint, excellent idea.

 

[Yaj Yak]

id be willing to hope and bet... tuners will be able to get around this... just like skip shifts, rev limiters, and basically any thing else you want to in a gm pcm.

 

[Handsome Jesus]

it's only new stuff anyway... who honestly races anything really really new?

 

[blakbearddelite]

Oh yeah, I'm sure someone will come up with something. I don't like The Man pushing down his safety standards on me.

 

[AlmightyBirdman]

Though from a safety standpoint, excellent idea.

x2 but still lame. Fuck Toyota.

 

[EmersonHart13]

HP Tuners will certainly be able to find a way to program this out.

But as said above it is a great safety feature.

 

[YoushallgoFo]

bullshit, just lose the by-wire shit and pop it into neutral. Its was faster and safer to put it in N during unintended acceleration.

 

[AlmightyBirdman]

bullshit, just lose the by-wire shit and pop it into neutral. Its was faster and safer to put it in N during unintended acceleration.

The problem is, Toyota drivers are too stupid to realize that. When a regular consumer thinks of stopping a car, they think brakes so that's how they are going to try and stop it. Sad but true and of course the government always takes the proper safety measures as our nation gets dumber and dumber, which is what they're doing now. Don't get me wrong tho, there are some smart Toyota drivers out there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4PtafRB9c&playnext_from=TL&videos=l3yeOJ7JdGc

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

It's already been said that the prius cannot be put into neutral when driving.


Oh and who cares....you think gm is gonna have anything worth driving besides the corvette and camaro? For sure there will be ways around this feature and it'll be great for the regular people out there.

 

[andcbii]

It's already been said that the prius cannot be put into neutral when driving.


Oh and who cares....you think gm is gonna have anything worth driving besides the corvette and camaro? For sure there will be ways around this feature and it'll be great for the regular people out there.

it can be put into neutral. You just have to hold it in neutral for a few seconds. The guy in Cali who had a "run away" prius told the cops he wouldn't put it in neutral because he was afraid of losing control of the car.

 

[AlmightyBirdman]

It's already been said that the prius cannot be put into neutral when driving.

Didn't the guy in the video just put it into neutral while driving?

 

[TransHed]

Makes me glad I dont plan on buying a new performance car ever lol

 

[Eagle]

HP Tuners will certainly be able to find a way to program this out.

But as said above it is a great safety feature.

Don't count on it. Depends if the logic is in the PCM or the BCM, or if it loops some other entirely different management system that HPT doesn't hook into...

For example, you cannot program out ABS with HPT.

 

[KaMaSuTrA]

Its getting up to the point where you'll need a programmer to regulate window length cause some dumb ass will choke themselves while putting their window up.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Its getting up to the point where you'll need a programmer to regulate window length cause some dumb ass will choke themselves while putting their window up.

probably

 

[Stink Star]

Though from a safety standpoint, excellent idea.

so would making cars not able to exceed the posted speed limit, but i would never buy a car setup like that......

 

[Stink Star]

They should just make all cars manuals.

X1000000

plus all the morons who cant even drive automatics will be taken off the road, saving countless lives