Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?

[Angrboda]

You have the gas pedal, faster, and the break pedal, slower, on the floor by your feet.  Dur.

Wait, I was asking how you can drop to a lower gear when wanting to accelerate faster. A gas pedal won't do that. It will put you into a higher gear when you go faster.

If I'm not mistaken, flooring it actually puts you into a lower gear. But I'm open to evidence either way. (If I'm not mistaken, putting it into a higher gear would reduce the ratio of power to wheel rotation resulting in you going slower. It is the increase of that ratio which causes you to speed up. But then, I could just be pulling this all from my ass.)