Could be, along with a large mixture of people with their head down in a smart phone who don't know which pedal they're pushing ...

... along with a lot of old people with "peripheral neuropathy" who have lost control of their legs, their brain told their leg to move the foot onto the brake pedal and for the last 80 years that process worked, but now it doesn't, they just THINK that their foot moved, and they mash the accelerator and blame the car ...

Lannis