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When the Toyota electronic throttle "unintended acceleration" accidents were in the news, the software was described as a "big bowl of spaghetti" but the NTSB ultimately determined that it was not the cause of the problems. It was drivers using the wrong pedal.

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Wrong pedal? How about faulty pedal.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20...

Malcolm Gladwell's podcast had a good summary of the issue, including the pedal confusion.

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game

There are news stories like this all over because it was an ongoing saga. But the DOT's investigation showed that folks were hitting the wrong pedal:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/its-all-your-fault-the...

I've long been curious about the "big bowl of spaghetti" comment (and all the other criticisms made by the experts who inspected Toyota's code). There were some extremely serious accusations which don't seem consistent with the fact that the vast majority of Toyotas on the road aren't showing problems caused by their MCU's spaghetti code.

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