Toyota USA president Jim Lentz on FNC right now, just used that wonderful phrase.
P.J. O'Rourke, in Parliament of Whores, summarized "pedal misapplication" as follows:
Yes, the dumb buggers stepped on the gas instead of the brake. Thus, sudden-acceleration incidents, or SAIs, closely resemble those sudden-unintelligence incidents, or SUIs, that many of us have experienced with our automobiles, especially when we were in our teens or early twenties. We'd be driving down a country road at a reasonable and prudent 115 miles per hour and — all of a sudden, for no apparent reason — the car would suffer an SUI and roll over five times in a cornfield. I seem to remember that sudden-unintelligence incidents were often associated with sudden-regurgitation incidents (SRIs), where my friends and I would — all of a sudden, for no apparent reason — drink four six-packs of warm Pabst. No doubt the DOT-NHSTA-VRTC will be investigating these mysterious phenomena ASAP-PDQ-BYOB.
Ah, that P.J. Always on top of the problem.