The company has blamed problems with the accelerator pedal and badly positioned floor mats.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

OK. This is still boring, so let's step on the accelerator.

好吧，这还是很无聊吧？,让我们打开加速器。

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If it's going in a circle, you will say from now on, that it, indeed, has an acceleration, even though no one's stepping on the accelerator, of amount v^2 over R.

如果它在一个圆周上运动,你会说从现在起它其实有加速度,即使没有人去踩油门,加速度大小为 v^2 / R

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Toyota says the problem is rare and caused by accelerator pedals becoming stuck open.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

But the problem is expected to spread to Europe, where a similar accelerator part is used.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

The Large Hadron Collider, of course,is the world's largest particle accelerator located near Geneva.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

We've never seen anything like this before," Toyota announced the recall last Thursday following reports that the accelerator mechanism in some models can wear down and cause the gas pedal to stick.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28