In 2010 there was "gas pedal gate" when a lot of Toyotas went on fire sale because people claimed the gas pedal was getting stuck (new drive by wire throttle systems), but the reality is, after years of research, it's come down to a skill issue. People stepping on the gas instead of the brake and sending it accidentally

Toyota even got NASA involved in testing for interference with radiation and cosmic rays causing a possible bit flip that could command the car to full send... but that didn't work.

The telling part was when they saw a large percentage of people in the accidents were old, diabetic, or both - two categories that have poor proprioception, (knowing where your limbs are) which was a major factor, as some of the cars on the list and lawsuits were made before drive by wire throttle - that is, they were mechanical linkages, so blaming the computer is impossible when there's no computer to blame.

Absolutely. I said it the last time this was posted, that this is an extremely common wreck with every model of car. About half of the drivers in my family growing up caused an accident this way. People press the accelerator when they think they're pressing the brake. The car goes faster, so they press the "brake" harder.

And even after the crash, the driver often insists that it's a problem with the car.

It's a driver error. A foot misalignment problem. It probably does happen more with any "self driving" car or anybody who uses smart cruise control, because the driver may not be using the pedals at all before the incident.

Yeah. That's always been my nightmare driving a regular car too, the "stop" and "go faster" buttons are right next to each other and in a place you can't see them. Such a weird standard, presumably a result of the requirement for physical linkages from early in car history. Would have been nice if electric vehicles had provided an opportunity to rethink that paradigm.

Off-by-one error

Warl0k3 has posted elsewhere in this thread with information about how these logs are generated and kept, they're event data recorders. They need to meet federal standards which presumably would include protections against having the data rewritten like that. Seems likely that if this was being done it would be a serious crime and probably a bigger news story than the crash itself, do you have any actual sources?

I don't think it is irrelevant though. in a car that can and does control your throttle without your input, and is famously poorly built with tons of software issues, built by a company whose head is a famous conman, you can't assume that this is driver error, even if it is a semi-common driver error.