While at a lengthy stop light my car suddenly surged forward at a high rate of speed while I hit the brakes. I was unable to stop in time and hit the car in front of me. I am certain I did not put my foot on the gas pedal. My foot was on the brake when this occurred.

This happened to me a second time. I was driving up a curvy grade, and had cancelled cruise control. The car suddenly accelerated, and I then realized that the cause of the surge was that my left leg (above my knee) reactivated the cruise control, which had been set at freeway speed (the same as the first occurrence when I rear ended the car at the stop light).

I feel it is important FORD and any owners of Ford Escapes are aware of the fact that a driver can easily unintentionally activate cruise control in a previous speed (freeway speed in my case) while at a stop light or stop sign, with a slight shift of the driver's left leg. Although I raised the steering wheel to it's highest position, I remain concerned this could happen again.

We bought this 2013 2.0 Ecoboost SEL Escape with 19000 miles and it seemed nice. It accelerated too fast with little pressure on the accelerator for me. One day it started losing and regaining power while driving it. We took it to the Ford dealer and the service engine light had gone out and it was running ok. They found nothing wrong. A week later it started acting up again. I started it up and got the service engine message, it jerked when put in drive. It would accelerate ok for about 5 seconds then slow down for a few seconds and keep repeating that cycle all the way to the Ford dealer. This time it did it for the mechanic. They kept it, and gave us a rental car. They called and said they had to order an Ecoboost part. It's making my wife leary about driving the escape when we get it back. Story to be continued.

Update from May 30, 2013: Today the dealer said the part would not be available for shipping until the end of the month. this is May 30th, I sure hope he didn't mean the end of June.