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Re:Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact by tashoecraft on Monday August 27, 2018 @03:52PM (#17853929)
You do know that there were no software issues that would keep cars accelerating, it was purely user error that got blown out of proportion?

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game

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Re:Toyota Investing $500M in Uber in Driverless Car Pact by rebuilder on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @04:41AM (#17857391)
A rather stark rebuttal to Gladwell's analysis was posted elsewhere in this discussion:

http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/tipping-point

Edit: I see this is addressed in updates to the Revisionist History posting, in PDF form.

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