What can I do with Monroe ? Should I trade him for Jahil or should I aim to sell low for someone else ? <| sep |> One thing to remember is that this may have been an electronic throttle body . All you need is a potentiometer to get stuck or get otherwise altered the computer would read fully depressed and the throttle body may get that signal too . And then you have the ABS , ESC , and brake pressure balancing systems that we have no idea how they are coded , nor how the systems are physically wired . For all we know , it is a possibility that the system ' s structure allows it to keep brake pressure from increasing to where it would be effective . Third , the Ebrake if after 2013 likely wasn ' t a handbrake it would be an electronic switchbutton . Lastly , no Quality personnel let alone a company would immediately lend itself open to liability until they know the source of failure . You have to remember that this is Volkswagen owned , a company that lost billions to a software cheat . What trust do you have have in their ability to write ethical code without fault ?