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Re: No Brake nor Gas Pedal

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Subject: Re: No Brake nor Gas Pedal
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:43:30 -0500
References: <24.2c01b219.2ac4d8c3@aol.com>
> > Is this new car anything like the hiik up to the brain waves,  What was
that
> > movie, anyway?
>

Are you thinking about Foxbat? Clint Eastwood steals a Russian fighter plane
that does what you think, if you think in Russian, that is.

> I'm pretty sure the Maybach still has a traditional gas pedal operating
the
> electronic "drive by wire" throttle -- there's just no throttle cable.

Ford has used a drive by wire throttle on Power Stroke diesels for years, no
horror stories that I know of. Seem to be more durable than the cables, too.

Jim K.

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