Question #900d3

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Gió
Oct 20, 2015

I tried this although I am not sure I had interpreted correctly your questin...

Explanation:

I would say because the (internal) force of your foot on the accelerator receives an equal and opposite reaction from the pedal giving a net result of zero from the point of view of the system "car".
Here you have a typical Newton's Third law situation of action-reaction pair.

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