Wrong design steering wheel and foot pedal for car driving
I saw the news there are a lot of car accidents are happened by miss to pedal gas and brake pedal.
http://www.oita-press.co.jp/1010000000/2016/02/21/234854431
I don't know how many time I saw this kind of news. The article is conclude by the police officer's comment "take care always for driving". But I think it caused by the wrong design of steering wheel and pedals.
It is easily to cause mistake to select pedal gas or brake by foot which are not able to see. And it cause driver to panic when he/she miss to pedal gas instead brake pedal and then they much more push gas pedal strongly as pedaling to metal!
In my opinion, it is wrong to drive a car by steering wheel and foot pedals.
How about to use bicycle handle and pedals?
That is to say when a driver pedaling forward with gear is also into forward, cars moves to forward. And when pedaling backward with gear is also into backward for a car move backward.
Needless to say it is impossible to move a car by human power. So fly by wire is used. Just signal is sent to controlling engine when pedaling. Handle is also same to change angle of tires.
Additionally, we can design to work brake when pedaling backward during car is going to forward like bicycle's coaster brake.
It would sounds really silly idea. But power steering and fly by wire technology has been available. So it is possible.
Car driving automation still have a lot of technology gap. But above idea can be realized by current technology. It can drastically reduce miss pedaling and drowsy driving accident (and bicycle pedaling would be good for our health). Why we don't change?