The car continued to roll despite application of both brakes, and so I threw the vehicle into park. The truck decelerated enough to allow me to pull over into the far right lane. So, then, I put one foot on the brake and used the other to push down the emergency brake. So, I pressed down the brake pedal with all my force, but the truck did not slow down sufficiently to safely pull over. The car barely slowed down and sped right back up continuing to accelerate as soon as I removed my foot from the brake. Realizing that my speed was 80 and rising rapidly, I pushed down on the brake pedal. But, my Toyota Tacoma still increased in speed, and the gas pedal seemed soft as if the truck was in cruise control. My truck accelerated as if it wanted to go faster than I did, and so I let my foot off the gas pedal. As I accelerated to get in front of a white semi-tractor trailer, I realized I was accelerating faster than I was pushing down on the gas pedal. On the 26th of March 2010 about 3:00 pm, I was driving my 2006 Toyota Tacoma and got onto interstate 80 going west and began to merge into traffic. It was as if there was a computer glitch or something and it was just driving itself. I have owned this vehicle since it was new in 2006 and have never had anything like this happen. I previously took the truck in for a recall to cut off the gas pedal so it would not get stuck on the floor mat, so my pedal has already been shortened. Finally I punched the accelerator with my foot and it felt like it came un-stuck or something. I was pushing the brakes and nothing was happening, just fighting against the acceleration. I was suddenly going over 90 mph and I could not stop. I thought something was wrong with the cruise control so I pushed the button to turn it off but it continued to accelerate. I accelerated to pass another truck and when I went to slow down after passing the truck suddenly started accelerating by itself and I could not get the brakes to work. I was using cruise control and I merged into the passing lane to get over for a highway patrol that had a truck pulled over. I was driving my 2006 Toyota Tacoma on the interstate at approxiately 65 mph.
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