Many of the Toyota problems had nothing to do with the mats--they are drive by wire and the computer was slammed on the gas without the pedal being depressed. Depending on when this occurs it could be deadly even with an expert driver.
It's tempting to blame drive by wire, since electronics is black magic to most people. Keep in mind that most passenger jets in the sky are fly by wire, these days.
For you to point blank claim this to be true, when it's been flatly denied several times, seems a bit over the top, don't you think?
You postulate that both sensors short out at the exact same instant, since any other scenario would power down the vehicle. They did it within milliseconds of each other, and they did it at some intermediate, yet believable level. (They didn't "peg at maximum", as that would also alert the software there was a problem. Instead they pegged, identically, at some believable value.
I'll take the other side of that bet any day.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/29/business/la-fi-toyot...
Toyota is claiming it's not the DbW system, but they also thought they had this issue fixed a long time ago. It's a hard thing to prove unless you see it yourself (unlike a broken cable like we used to have before DbW).
Even Woz thinks is the DbW software:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10445564-64.html?tag=mncol...
Complaints of out of control acceleration increased after 2000. I guess it's the millennium bug. In other words: correlation is not causation. Moreover, no numbers are presented to actually support this correlation. What about 1996-1999? 100 cases would be totally plausible.
Even Woz thinks is the DbW software With the rather important difference that it doesn't actually cause any problems, because he can just brake and make the acceleration stop.