>> The floor mats and sticking pedal accounts for only 30% of the
>> problems. The true cause of sudden acceleration is still not known so
>> no real solution is possible. IMO it's the electronics.
>>
>> "In earlier testimony, David Gilbert, a Southern Illinois University
>> professor, tells the panel he was able to produce in a lab environment
>> a sudden-acceleration incident using a Toyota vehicle, in essence by
>> introducing a short between two circuits.
>
> Consider who is paying for this research....Trail Lawyers!
>
> This is eerily like the Audi 5000 frenzy. When 60 minutes did their
> hatchet job on the 5000, they produced an "expert" who "proved" that the
> 5000's automatic transmission could force a kick down of the accelerator
> pedal, resulting in sudden acceleration. Good old Ed Bradly presented this
> as some sort of scientific proof. Only later did we learn (and not from
> CBS) that the expert added an extra hydraulic pump and external piping to
> demonstarte this "failure" mode.
>
> There may or may not be an actual problem with the Toyota electronics. But
> an "expert" that creates shorts to "prove" there is a problem is not the
> sort of expert I trust.
>
> Ed
>
I see no indication that any expert claims to have proven anything. Maybe you're interpreting something differently than I am. Please highlight the words you read and surround them with five asterisks on either end of the phrase, *****like this*****.