{"id":1244,"date":"2010-08-06T15:07:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2010-08-06T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:10:28","slug":"new-design-for-gas-and-brake-pedal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"New Design For Gas And Brake Pedal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/gas-brake-pedal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/gas-brake-pedal.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gas brake pedal\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1243\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;\"\/><\/a>Masuyuki Naruse, a Japanese inventor in southwest Japan, says he has revolutionized the brake and accelerator pedals of automobiles, to make it safer for drivers.  Naruse says the side by side pedal arrangement that exists today, makes it easy for drivers to mistakenly floor the accelerator, instead of brakes, when under stressful situations.  His solution?  A single pedal that accelerates the vehicle when pressed with the side of the foot, and brakes when the pedal is pushed down.  Mr. Naruse\u2019s pedal has been around for two decades, but until recently, his design has not been takes seriously. About 130 cars are equipped with Mr. Naruse\u2019s pedal, mostly owned by friends and acquaintances. He holds patents for the Naruse Pedal in Japan, the United States and six other countries. <\/p>\n<p>Ririko Takeuchi, a Tokyo-based spokeswoman for Toyota, said the company could not comment on Mr. Naruse\u2019s pedal design. But she said Toyota \u201clistens to ideas received from the public, because we believe there\u2019s always room for improvement.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masuyuki Naruse, a Japanese inventor in southwest Japan, says he has revolutionized the brake and accelerator pedals of automobiles, to make it safer for drivers.  Naruse says the side by side pedal arrangement that exists today, makes it easy for drivers to mistakenly floor the accelerator, instead of brakes, when under stressful situations.  His solution?  A single pedal that accelerates the vehicle when pressed with the side of the foot, and brakes when the pedal is pushed down.  Mr. Naruse\u2019s pedal has been around for two decades, but until recently, his design has not been takes seriously. About 130 cars are equipped with Mr. Naruse\u2019s pedal, mostly owned by friends and acquaintances. He holds patents for the Naruse Pedal in Japan, the United States and six other countries.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=1244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,140],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-auto-industry","tag-automobile-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}