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Cupcakes
The pivot point? Bear in mind that whilst the design has to (for obvious reasons) accommodate potential peak loads - lets say 150kg in an accident - it's a passenger car, not a race car, so it's heavily servo-assisted, and peak loads during normal operation are going to be very light.
You give it a bit of a shove to actuate the "hold" function, but even then it's a firm press rather than "stand on the pedal whilst praying".