03-09-2010, 01:37 PM
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Location: Dadeville,
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Unintended acceleration
The unintended acceleration news story of the day today involves a Toyota Prius. Now I don't have any inside information about the Toyota situation or about unintended acceleration in general, but I have been around long enough to have heard many stories, most of them long before the recent Toyota fiasco. There are countless stories of people pressing the gas pedal when they intended to press the brake. Many of them fessed up after the accident and admitted their mistake. Others swore they were pressing the brake pedal even after a thorough post incident examination revealed no mechanical problems that would have caused the acceleration. So, my uninformed opinion is that most if not all of the problems of unintended acceleration are caused by driver error. .... I view the heartfelt stories of drivers who swore they were standing on the brakes with the same skepticism I feel when someone describes their encounter with space aliens or supernatural creatures.
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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