2014 Volkswagen Passat acceleration complaints

Filed Aug 16, 2014 · Acceleration · 3,000 miles · FL · crash

As I tried to position myself to enter a parking lot. I changed gear to reverse, to back up. I switched gear again to drive. I proceed to the lot and that's when the car moved at a very high speed. I hit the brake, but had break failure . I could not stop the car, in the process (7) other cars were hit... Until the car was stopped by another car that was hit.

Filed Apr 12, 2014 · Acceleration · DC

I rented a 4 door vw passat (license plate[xxx]; mva #[xxx]) from avis at the baton rouge airport on tuesday, april 8, 2014. Today, april 11, 2014, while driving on the highway from new orleans to baton rouge my car accelerated to 80 miles and stayed at that rate (without me having my foot on the gas), approximately 7 or 8 times. My speed did not go down unless I pressed on the breaks, similar to what occurs when someone engages cruise control (but I had not engaged cruise control). Although this issue occurred several times, I could not positively identify the movements necessary to recreate the effect. However, I do know that it occurred at least some of the times (and possibly every time) when I was accelerating to pass a car *and* moved to the right hand lane. Towards the end of my drive I made sure to only be touching the steering wheel at the bottom, therefore it was not possible that I accidentally engaged the cruise control via any of the side levers, and on my model the only buttons on the steering wheel itself were for radio volume and station. I did not get into an accident, but I could imagine different circumstances had this issue arisen during denser traffic conditions. *js information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6)

Filed Oct 22, 2013 · Acceleration · 300 miles · CA

Vehicle cruise control does not control speed downhill when cruise control is set. Vehicle speed keeps increasing while going downhill.