I dont know about the new thinking but,
this is a new car for dave and his old chassis the
cable use to come back torwards the seat and loop
back around to the pedal and when you pushed the pedal
it would pull the cable, now the cable is fixed in a mount
just below and in front of the pedal and when you push the
pedal down it also pushes the cable, and also the way it
attaches to the linkage on the throttle shaft it too pushes up
to open the blades as opposed to pulling downward.
im confused now are you....

this is just the way the pedal is set up.