Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal...
by romwell on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:17PM
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No, this faulty unintended acceleration: [1][2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration...
[2]http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...
Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal...
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:47AM
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So... the NHTSA started an investigation in 2010, and Toyota 'provided to the American public, NHTSA and the United States Congress an inaccurate timeline of events that made it appear as if TOYOTA had learned of the sticky pedal in the United States in “October 2009,”', when "In fact, TOYOTA had begun its investigation of sticky pedal in the United States no later than August 2009, had already reproduced the problem in a U.S. pedal by no later than September 2009, and had taken active steps in the months following that testing to hide the problem from NHTSA and the public."
But the NHTSA's 10-month investigation beginning in 2010 when Toyota had already informed them of the sticky pedals came to the conclusion that zero of the reported cases of unintended acceleration involved sticky pedals.
That's a case for lying to the government, and we see a judgment against Toyota for lying to the government. How is it a case for unintended acceleration?
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9311_Toyota_vehicle... ?
> The most common problem was drivers hitting the accelerator pedal when they thought they were hitting the brake, which the NHTSA called "pedal misapplication.” Of the 58 cases reported, 18 were dismissed out of hand. Of the remaining 40, 39 of them were found to have no cause; the remainder being an instance of “pedal entrapment.”