# 2017 Toyota Camry - Unintended acceleration **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** toyota\ **Created:** [May 16, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-toyota-camry-unintended-acceleration/164400 "2020-05-16T17:52:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hcarris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@hcarris](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hcarris)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-toyota-camry-unintended-acceleration/164400/1 "2020-05-16T17:52:43Z")
Sitting in line at a bank, with my foot on the brakes my car sped off and did not stop until it ran into the back of the vehicle in front of me. Forestville MD, US ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-toyota-camry-unintended-acceleration/164400/2 "2020-05-17T01:06:09Z")
So no question? If your foot was on the brake, you could have stopped the car. The brakes are stronger than the engine. ---
**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-toyota-camry-unintended-acceleration/164400/3 "2020-05-17T02:34:07Z")
The few time’s I use the drive through’s I see people (in my opinion) pull to close to the car in front of them then they start playing with their phone and not paying attention to what is going I can see where they can ease of the brake and when they realize it mash down hard with the foot and hit the gas at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 11:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-toyota-camry-unintended-acceleration/164400/4 "2020-05-17T11:18:53Z")
> [@Mustangman](#): > > If your foot was on the brake, you could have stopped the car. **The brakes are stronger than the engine.** +1 That bears repeating! ---
**Author:** ![art1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@art1966](https://community.cartalk.com/u/art1966)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-toyota-camry-unintended-acceleration/164400/5 "2020-05-17T12:27:22Z")
Camry - check (mine is 2004); ATM line - check; Foot on brake - check; Unintended acceleration - check; Hit something - nope (whew!). I was wearing big galoshes, and from experience I realized that the edge of my foot was also pushing the accelerator; I managed to recover quickly. What experience? Several months before, while wearing big work boots, I got distracted talking to my passenger as I nosed into a parking space. My foot forgot that I had not moved it over to the brake pedal, so when I went to “brake”, I accelerated. And the harder I “braked”, the faster I went. Here’s a pic. ![IMG_20141124_141508](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/c/2/c24ee2b0583474674f54551745af59a438f08c21.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2017-toyota-camry-unintended-acceleration/164400/6 "2020-05-17T12:53:17Z")
> [@art1966](#): > > My foot forgot that I had not moved it over to the brake pedal, so when I went to “brake”, I accelerated. And the harder I “braked”, the faster I went. Yup! In the aftermath of my friend’s Accord being T-boned by a crazy woman driving a Lexus RX, I overheard the police officer’s questioning of the woman. She told the cop, **“The harder I pressed the brake, the faster it went”**. As he walked away, the officer muttered, “Yeah, that’s what happens when you don’t know the difference between the gas and the brake”.