Cars do not have minds of their own. A car just does what the driver tells it to do. Dick schmitt was a cargy. Mark sailor did nothing wrong. Nothing what happened to him could have happened to any of us, and will happen again unless we can finally have an honest conversation about what a car is and what it isn't.
In the summer and fall of 2009, hundreds of Toyota owners came forward with an alarming allegation: Their cars were suddenly and uncontrollably accelerating. Toyota was forced to recall 10 million vehicles, pay a fine of more than $1 billion, and settle countless lawsuits. The consensus was that there was something badly wrong with the world’s most popular cars. Except that there wasn’t. What happens when hysteria overtakes common sense?
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