My father-in-law's Avalon had the rapid acceleration happen as he was merging onto a highway. He ended up slowing down by throwing it in neutral, which caused the engine redline protection to kick in and drop the engine out of gear. This happened on their way to FL for the winter.
We visited them a few weeks later and while we were there, one night we started examining the car. I had thought the floormats causing it was kind of a funny reason, but after seeing how the acceleration pedal goes into a recessed hole, I could maybe see how that would happen. My FIL was aware of the floor mat issue, especially because he added his own rubber mats to the car. He remembers kicking the floor mat backwards when he had the sudden acceleration, and when he did get it stopped, the mat was not under the pedal. It's a weird pedal design that they have on that car, and I could see how a mat might get wedged there, but I still think there is something else contributing to it.
I was at a Foo Fighters concert recently, and for one of their slow songs, the "kids" pulled out their cell phones, opened them up and used the light from the lcd screen in place of lighters. Ack, very depressing. Talk about feeling old...
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My father-in-law's Avalon had the rapid acceleration happen as he was merging onto a highway. He ended up slowing down by throwing it in neutral, which caused the engine redline protection to kick in and drop the engine out of gear. This happened on their way to FL for the winter.
We visited them a few weeks later and while we were there, one night we started examining the car. I had thought the floormats causing it was kind of a funny reason, but after seeing how the acceleration pedal goes into a recessed hole, I could maybe see how that would happen. My FIL was aware of the floor mat issue, especially because he added his own rubber mats to the car. He remembers kicking the floor mat backwards when he had the sudden acceleration, and when he did get it stopped, the mat was not under the pedal. It's a weird pedal design that they have on that car, and I could see how a mat might get wedged there, but I still think there is something else contributing to it.
I was at a Foo Fighters concert recently, and for one of their slow songs, the "kids" pulled out their cell phones, opened them up and used the light from the lcd screen in place of lighters. Ack, very depressing. Talk about feeling old...
less - the pager of pagers. With a proper lessopen/pipe, you can do what no man has done before. You can go backwards in files, although I guess some 'more's can do this now. Less always can. It also highlights text searches
Why have less or more, when you can have mosthttp://www.jedsoft.org/most/ I just find it easier to use and it handles binary files.