This fascinating podcast put unintended acceleration to the test and examines how to handle a runaway vehicle. 

Podcast “Blame Game” looks under the hood at one of the strangest public hysterias in recent memory. What really happened in all those Camrys and Lexuses? And how did so many drivers come to misunderstand so profoundly what was happening to them behind the wheel? The answer touches on our increasingly fraught relationship to technology and the dishonesty and naiveté of many in the media.

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