Exposing Trojan Source exploits in Emacs

(1) The operator was indeed pressing the accelerator pedal (or at least not depressing the brake pedal)
(2) The pedal itself was physically impeded from returning to neutral (eg getting stuck under a floor mat, or wear on the pedal's pivot)

Most of the reports were proven to be (1), some turned out to be (2), resuting in recalls/changes to make the floor mat retainers more robust and inspections (and replacement if necessary) of the pedal assembly. As far as I am aware there were no instances that were ultimately demonstrated to be a failure of the pedal sensors (yes, plural) or the ECU/software.

Relatedly, I'm not aware of any black box "failures" (as opposed to physical destruction or simply not being designed to track the data that investigator were wanting after the fact -- eg they recorded the state of the brake pedal but not the state of the accelerator) but I'll freely admit my memory is hazy.