1. Home
  2. Hyundai Cars and SUV Forum
  3. Hyundai announces standard brake-override for all models

Hyundai announces standard brake-override for all models

From AB

HYUNDAI IMPLEMENTS THROTTLE OVERRIDE CAPABILITY IN ADVANCE OF PENDING GOVERNMENT MANDATE

Hyundai Bolsters Its Safety Leadership Record with all Models Providing Brake Pedal Throttle Override Capability

COSTA MESA, May 2, 2012 ? Hyundai continues its practice of providing critical safety technologies to its customers well before government mandates come into effect with all models now offering brake pedal electronic throttle override capability.

The government mandate for brake pedal throttle override capability, a component of FMVSS 124 (Accelerator Control Systems), has been under consideration by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). However, its final approval and subsequent timing have yet to be determined. Hyundai development teams have been less concerned about final government mandate timing, focusing instead on the immediate safety and assurance of their customers.

Beginning with May 2012 production, fully 100 percent of all U.S. Hyundai models now provide the assuring safeguard of brake pedal throttle override capability. This advanced safety feature implementation by Hyundai remains many months and possibly years before the final government mandate, if approved.

Reply to
MummyChunk
Loading thread data ...

Can someone explain what that is?

Reply to
Larry Weil

That means that you should be able to stop your car while flooring the throttle. I assume that applying the brakes disengages the throttle. Many people get confused about which pedal is which and apply both at once and then run into things and off cliffs, etc.

Reply to
Paul in Houston TX

It keeps stupid people from hurting themselves.

formatting link
The mandate has been under consideration by NHTSA since April 16,

2012, but beginning with May production, all of Hyundai?s models will have the additional safeguard of brake pedal throttle override capability. While a remote possibility, the electronic throttle control could malfunction, causing a vehicle to accelerate on its own. The advanced safety feature will ensure that vehicles driven by an electronic throttle body won?t have any instances of unintentional acceleration. Hyundai?s implementation of a brake pedal throttle override could be months, even years, ahead of government mandate if it?s even approved. ?With Hyundai?s brake pedal throttle override capability, any brake pedal input by the driver, even with a runaway throttle condition, completely overrides any throttle malfunction,? said Robert Babcock, director of certification and compliance affairs for Hyundai?s technical center. ?It is no longer possible to have increasing engine power once the brake pedal is depressed by the driver. This adds a reassuring, incremental safeguard of control for Hyundai drivers.?
Reply to
Ed Pawlowski

No more smoking burnouts or powering out mud holes. :(

Reply to
Paul in Houston TX

formatting link

It also suggests that those who buy Hyundai's aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Reply to
Voyager

formatting link
>>

Nah, they just want to head off the Honda, Ford, Toyota, and GM type lawyer problems before someone drives off a cliff, kills the family, and blames the gas pedal. Remember the flying, flaming Lexus in California?

Reply to
Paul in Houston TX

Oh, you mean the murder/suicide? A couple of cars a week were running away after that made the news and just a suddenly, it stopped. Amazing what people will do to get on the news.

I figure a couple may be people hitting the wrong pedal, the others are copy-cats.

Reply to
Ed Pawlowski

MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.