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The automotive vehicle has become one of modern Society's deadliest killers, in addition to injuring thousands of lives every year. This paper describes a combined accelerator and brake in one pedal which may be a technique for reducing automotive accidents. Its use is riot limited to automobiles, but can be used in any typo of automotive vehicle. Reaction time, from onset of an accident stimulus until the brakes are initially applied, is 0-256 seconds with this one pedal system, versus 0.468 seconds under the conventional two pedal accelerator-brake system. This saving of over 45 per cent in reaction time, results in the brakes of a vehicle being applied about 19 feet earlier at 60 mph for example. In addition, the driver would have this much more room to swerve and possibly avoid an otherwise serious situation ahead.