[throwaway0261]

There was a news story from Norway last year where a car allegedly accelerated by itself, causing the car to fall off the second floor of a parking garage and kill the driver.

[mnw21cam]

There are plenty of "car allegedly accelerated by itself" incidents, and usually the root cause is the driver mistakenly pressing the accelerator pedal when they think they're pressing the brake pedal. And then swearing blind afterwards that they were braking as hard as they possibly could but the car kept surging forwards.

[bobmcnamara]

Time and time again the introduction of electronic throttle control has spiked the number of reported unintended acceleration incidents.

There's a chart here that shows it clearly for Toyota's rollout:

https://www.embedded.com/unintended-acceleration-and-other-e...