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Archive Home > 2010 > August > 06 > Is one pedal safer than 2?

Is one pedal safer than 2?

Inventors creating devices that would prevent driver error

By Hiroko Tabuchi / The Bulletin
August 6, 2010

TAMANA, Japan — Two pedals, inches apart, one for gas and the other for brakes. For years, a Japanese inventor has argued that this most basic of car designs is dangerously flawed.

The side-by-side pedal arrangement, the inventor says, can cause drivers mistakenly to floor the accelerator....

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