[Mick]

I did it once backing up from a diagonal parking space in my camera van. Thankfully nobody else was on the street and I managed to regain control after about 10 feet. Scary. So it happens. Senior moment?

You may recall the 1987 60 Minutes segment on unintended acceleration in the Audi. Ruined the Audi brand for a while -- so much so, that I purchased a gently-used, fully-loaded, top-of-the-line Audi 100 a few years later for a ridiculous discount, despite dark warnings from my American-cars-only family that I would put it through my garage.  Drove it like a dream for 130k miles.

Turns out that "pedal misapplication" was the culprit.  A few articles:

https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/10...celeration
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html...-5665.html

Interestingly, Audi and 60 Minutes had a history, pre-Audi story:
https://jalopnik.com/60-minutes-wasn-t-a...st-5942929

[Mick]

I did it once backing up from a diagonal parking space in my camera van. Thankfully nobody else was on the street and I managed to regain control after about 10 feet. Scary. So it happens. Senior moment?

You may recall the 1987 60 Minutes segment on unintended acceleration in the Audi. Ruined the Audi brand for a while -- so much so, that I purchased a gently-used, fully-loaded, top-of-the-line Audi 100 a few years later for a ridiculous discount, despite dark warnings from my American-cars-only family that I would put it through my garage.  Drove it like a dream for 130k miles.

Turns out that "pedal misapplication" was the culprit.  A few articles:

https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/10...celeration
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html...-5665.html

Interestingly, Audi and 60 Minutes had a history, pre-Audi story:
https://jalopnik.com/60-minutes-wasn-t-a...st-5942929