Flooring the gas pedal, braking hard and flooring it again through traffic is the driving style of a moron.
Transaxles give their best fuel economy when operated in the top cruise gear and with steady pressure on the gas pedal.
Gently and slowly let you foot off the clutch, while you may stamp the gas pedal as gently as you stamp on an egg. You will feel the car moves forward.
You control the amount of air that passes through the throttle plate and into the engine with the gas pedal.
The trick is to keep very light pressure on the gas pedal, just enough to feed a steady amount of fuel to the engine.
So when the automaker announced plans to stop selling millions of its cars in the United States and Europe last month because of gas pedal defects, the Japanese were concerned.
There are times that you need to floor the gas pedal, especially if you're moving out of a sharp curve.
But if fiscal stimulus used to be likened to stepping on the gas pedal, then the Obama package is like hitting the gas and the brakes at the same time.
If I am going to buy a car, I'm going to assume they all have wheels that rotate forward and backward on demand and they have a steering wheel, a gas pedal, and a brake pedal that work.
She pressed down hard on the gas pedal.
In a micro hybrid or a start-stop hybrid, such as those being introduced by General Motors, the engine shuts down when the car comes to a halt, and an integrated starter-generator fires up the engine instantly when the driver steps on the gas pedal.
It is both essential and desirable to have a certain defined degree of friction in these electronic gas pedal assemblies.
An examiner who witnessed the crash said the woman panicked while trying to park the car and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake.
As soon as drivers lift their foot off the gas pedal, the brakes kick in automatically to bring the car to a stop, Akatsu said.
