# Toyota stuck gas pedal - Just take it out of gear!!

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 4, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-stuck-gas-pedal-just-take-it-out-of-gear/527734 "2010-02-04T23:04:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-stuck-gas-pedal-just-take-it-out-of-gear/527734/161 "2010-03-11T07:27:51Z")

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“B” ?!? What the hell is ‘B’?!

_“It get 300 Hectares per liter of kerosene. Put it in ‘H’!”_

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-stuck-gas-pedal-just-take-it-out-of-gear/527734/162 "2010-03-11T15:52:31Z")

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> [@Hail\_Ants](#):
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> “B” ?!? What the hell is ‘B’?!
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> _“It get 300 Hectares per liter of kerosene. Put it in ‘H’!”_

From what I could find, apparently some sort of engine braking mode.

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**Author:** ![Rain\_Soaked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rain\_Soaked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rain_Soaked)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-stuck-gas-pedal-just-take-it-out-of-gear/527734/163 "2010-03-11T16:44:49Z")

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B is breaking mode. The car does does not have discrete gears, so there is no low gears such as 1 and 2 to shift into. You use B for engine breaking on long downhills for example. The car uses a type of Continuously Variable Transmission.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-stuck-gas-pedal-just-take-it-out-of-gear/527734/164 "2010-03-11T16:47:07Z")

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> [@Rain\_Soaked](#):
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> B is breaking mode.

Well, I’ll be sure to stay out of B, then. 😉

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toyota-stuck-gas-pedal-just-take-it-out-of-gear/527734/165 "2010-03-11T16:47:08Z")

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_Braking._ BRAKING.

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