Every car maker gets hit with complaints of sudden acceleration. People are getting into strange cars and maybe because those people are too short, they were a little further away from the pedal than usual. They start making stabbing motions with their right foot, like some one groping in the dark. Your brain requests a very specific action, but your body fails to deliver exactly what it's told to do.
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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