A PEDAL that works as both an accelerator and a brake will save lives if car
makers adopt the design, according to Swedish inventor Sven Gustafsson. The idea
sounds bizarre, but officials at the Swedish National Road Administration have
already done extensive road tests and approved the device for use.
It takes longer to brake in an emergency with separate pedals, says Rickard
Nilsson at Uppsala University, who tested out Gustafsson’s pedal for the SNRA.
It takes at least 0.2 seconds to move your foot from one pedal to the other, he
says, and at 90 kilometres per hour this…
