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Re-activateJust before last Halloween, we wrote about "ghosts in the machine"—appliances that seemed to have a mind of their own. Cars appeared to be haunted last year, too. After Toyota recalled 8 million vehicles in the United States for sudden unintended acceleration problems related to either the floor mats or sticky accelerator pedals, some owners complained that their vehicles still experienced the problem—even after they were fixed.
An electronic ghost, perhaps? Not according to a 10-month study conducted by NASA at the request of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to determine if electromagnetic interference or software glitches were at least partially responsible for the vehicles speeding out of control.
As an evidence-based organization, the fact that NASA did not discover an acceleration-causing ghost gives us confidence in our recommendations for Toyota vehicles.
For more on this issue, read: "NASA report: Blame floor mats and pedals, Toyota already addressed acceleration problems."
—Don Mays
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