My car is trying to kill me!

[Rafnul]

I was coming home today from this lame PSAT test I had to take, and I was switching my foot from gas to brake, but I when started to remove my foot from the gas pedal, the car sucked the pedal in, and I accelerated to 60 before I knew what was going on. I'm fine, nothing happened, but what would make something like that happen?

[Yoshiman]

Umm... Car gremlings? I have no clue what would've made your car do that. You should probably get it checked by a mechanic or something. Just to be safe, y'know?

[lord_jamitossi]

mabye you are having leg spasms... wha? :odd:

[Rafnul]

I bet the car is mad at me for driving it in all those ditches...

[Brasel]

I've never heard of that happening before. You might want to get that checked out ASAP if you want to live through your next driving "adventure".

[cyberkiller6276]

HEH, I went to PSATs today too. Man, that test was so easy...I'm sure the actual SATs are longer and harder...

As for your car, I would get that checked out. That's pretty wierd o.0

[AlphaDawg]

Apparently it happens enough that it was deemed necessary to put a little blurb in the Pennsylvania driver's manual describing what to do if such a thing happens.

I also seem to remember a dumb TV movie where this happens to some young hot chick... of course it was right in the middle of rush hour, and then there just happened to be a scheduled bridge opening and a whole bunch of other nuisances. A dumb Speed ripoff if you ask me.

[Maverick_Zero]

Well, call Car Talk on NPR, they'll answer your questions, they're geniuses. =p

But, did it come up, and then come down, or did you take your foot off, and it stayed down? It could just be a sticky pedal or something.

[Rafnul]

I pulled my foot up, and it went down, farther down. There are two ways I know this: I was going uphill and I accelerated, and I felt the pedal go down.