This is starting to get old, huh?
Looks like those "electrical gremlins" that everyone was hootin' and hollerin' about don't exactly exist. Not yet, at least.
In a preliminary report issued by the National Research Council, displayed that 58 of the Toyota "black box" recorders did not find anything substantially linking a "ghost in the machine," as The Truth About Cars puts it.
What do you make of this, Spies?
This isn’t so much a news item as a “Congress finally figured it out” item. A preliminary report by the National Research Council, recently revealed to congress, shows that of 58 Toyota “black box” event data recorders from crashes which occurred during the recall scandal 35 showed that at the moment of impact, the driver hadn’t depressed the brake pedal at all. Fourteen more showed partial braking, while nine showed the brake depressed at the “last second” before the crash.
There were a handful of other results where the brake was pressed early and let go, or in which both the gas and brake pedals were pressed at the same time. There also was one case of pedal entrapment by a floor mat.
In five cases, the electronic recording device failed to work.
[Source: The Truth About Cars]
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