@svelte
Nope.. we got the point of your post.. and pointed out the weakness of it. How about trying it for yourself and seeing what happens? Brakes smoke, not burn or burst into flames. You also missed my statement:

If you have run-away acceleration and decide to use the brakes to maintain speed but not stop the vehicle, you can fade them to nothing.. but they will smoke and not ignite…

We didn’t deny that he had the foot on the brakes.. but pointed out that there were at least 2 other ways to stop the vehicle.. neutral and turning it off. Having smoking brakes led me to suspect that the officer used the brakes to keep the vehicle at the speed limit until he overheated them.. instead of immediately stopping because the vehicle was not behaving safely (and as a safety officer no less). Had he used the brakes to stop the car when it started to have the run-away acceleration, it would have worked. If he had used the brakes to maintain speed – he would have overheated them to the point that they would be useless (like riding the brakes down a long mountain road instead of downshifting – at some point the brakes overheat to the point that they will not work).

If a car has ‘runaway acceleration’, you have to commit to stopping it instead of hoping to ride your brakes until you get home.