In february 20, eleventh, the national highway traffic safety administration released its report on the whole toyota business. And they basically agreed with schmidt. They concluded that the overwhelming number of sudden acceleration cases were clearly pedal air. The agency now this because every car has a black box that records when the brake and when the accelerator are used. Time and again, in these cases, the black boxes showed that the brakes hadn't even been touched. Do you realize how insane that is? This is the guy in charge of american safety, and he is completely deluded about the cause of the problem. He wants to blame the car.
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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