The engine throttle control system supports XB-1's final assembly and ground testing, as it prepares for first flight in 2020.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has decided not to go forward with plans to require and regulate brake-throttle override systems aimed at preventing occurrences of unintended ...

Toyota has sold 40 million vehicles with such a system, he said, but “there was not a single case” in which they could identify the electronic throttle control system as the cause of the ...

VMAC has upgraded the throttle control on all new UNDERHOOD and Direct-Transmission Mounted (DTM) air compressor systems from an analog system to a digital system, which has significant benefits ...

Independent electronics and engineering experts say the drive-by-wire systems differ from automaker to automaker and that the potential for electronic throttle control systems to malfunction may ...

Brake throttle override systems work by the vehicle software cutting power to the throttle if both pedals are depressed.

To run these advanced throttle systems, each automaker develops its own electronic control modules and proprietary software that has unique control logic.

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