The phrase "depress the accelerator" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to push down on the gas pedal in a vehicle to make it go faster. Example: "As soon as the light turned green, I depressed the accelerator to merge onto the highway."
Not that the car suddenly rears up and becomes a cut-price Japanese rust-bucket the moment you select first and depress the accelerator.
The basics of putting the car into gear with a manual transmission is this: letting off on the clutch while you depress the accelerator.
If you are about to pass another vehicle while on cruise, and your speed is just barely faster, gently depress the accelerator to slightly increase your speed temporarily so the pass is completed in a reasonable amount of time.
Depress the accelerator once and then release it.
Depress the accelerator — with the car still in neutral — to increase the RPMs.
The vehicle speeds at which shifts occur depend on the position of the accelerator pedal, and the driver can delay upshifts until higher speed is attained by depressing the accelerator pedal further.
Cars are engineered to be tolerant of pedal error: the driver who depresses the accelerator, thinking it's the brake, still has the option of simply putting the car in neutral or turning it off.
The term "lovers' quarrel" came into my head at the very moment the girl lifted her face and Mallory yelled, "Stop!" "It's a lovers' quarrel," I said, ever so slightly depressing the accelerator.
14 Depressing the accelerator (equivalent to activating T-cells) is necessary for the car to move forward (equivalent to a productive immune response against the tumor).
When the car is in gear and gas is not being fed to the engine by depressing the accelerator pedal, so that it is coasting perhaps down a hill, in a fuel-injected car no gas or very little is being used, thus saving fuel.
Once it does, take your foot off the accelerator, depress the clutch, and bring the shift lever into second gear with your foot still on the clutch.
