The gas pedal in your car is both an acceleration pedal (if you push it to the floor or ease off the pedal you change your speed and get faster or slower) and also a speed pedal (if you hold it consta...The gas pedal in your car is both an acceleration pedal (if you push it to the floor or ease off the pedal you change your speed and get faster or slower) and also a speed pedal (if you hold it constant you keep a constant speed with no acceleration). The tension in a guitar string is the force pulling at either end of the string (the force pulling each end is the same and balances out so the string doesn't go anywhere).