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Old 02-25-2010, 12:29 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
Wow. So it's the electronics, but it's also garbage-in, garbage out. I consider the artificial-short to be a "sensor gone bad". The software in the car computer is gets bad sensor input and CHOOSES to ignore the driver's input. I am guessing that Toyota will state that the test is not fair, but it does replicate the symptoms quite well. Even if they need a hardware fix for the short, I think a software upgrade would be cheaper to do (rock = ???, paper = accelerator, scissors = brake).

The Titanic Syndrome lives (a set of ifs leading to disaster [for Toyota])!

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