2022 Jeep Compass Pricing and Specs

Many cars don’t appreciate having the brake and throttle peal pressed at the same time. It’s partly a response to cases of pedal error in the USA many years ago that almost bankrupted some car companies via legal cases brought by owners who had pressed both pedals and had their car rocket through a wall or into a shopping centre. The US courts called it Unintended Acceleration. The rest of the world called it Pedal Error.

In any case, if you do press the brake and throttle pedal together, the throttle may – as you have noted – become unresponsive. But it should return to normal operation within a few seconds. You claim not to be pressing both pedals at once, but sometimes, even a light, unintentional brush of the brake pedal is enough to send the car into no-throttle mode.

That said, you could have a vehicle that incorrectly 'thinks’ you’re pressing both pedals when you are not. In that case, the sensors that detect pedal pressure may need to be changed. You could also be dealing with a car with a faulty body computer – the brain that links all these functions together cohesively.