PopularMechanics.com Toyota Fires Back: Electronics Dont Rewire Themselves
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As a follow up to his previous article regarding the Toyota pedal and how it would be nearly impossible for an error to increase acceleration, Mike Allen of PopularMechanics.com uses information presented by Toyota on March 8, 2010 regarding the issues and unrealistic nature of Professor Dave Gilberts testing.
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One pertinent factoid: Not a single case of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) has been attributed to bad wiring. None. Toyota has been harvesting parts from vehicles with documented SUA issues as part of the recall, and they're checking them all. None of them have shown any sign of corrosion or shorted wiring.
You can engineer around any safety system if you try hard enough. Toyota also illustrated that Gilbert's modification works on cars from many different manufacturers. During a webcast explaining the modifications, Toyota had a half-dozen cars built by a half-dozen companies that were rewired in the same manner. All of them produced the same result as that Avalon.
