[tinwhiskers] Re: Toyota
- From: "Bob Landman" <rlandman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tinwhiskers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:21:24 -0500
Our 1990 Mercury Sable was nicknamed "killer" as it had a sudden accelleration
problem when it was new. The dealer had to install a flight recorder so we
could trigger it when we had an unintended accelleration event. Took over a
month to track it down to a defective accellerator pedal sensor. The
replacement was also bad (Ford had a rash of them apparently).
One would think the modern ECM would have that feature built in?
Bob
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[mailto:tinwhiskers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rod
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:44 AM
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Subject: [tinwhiskers] Re: Toyota
On 11 Feb 2010, at 20:51, Werner Engelmaier wrote:
> As I understand it, Toyota still does not understand the root cause of their
> problem.
Understandable - 2243 incidents over several years with over 7 million vehicles
and god knows how many million miles traveled? with no embedded monitor to
figure what happened? I have worked out some weird scenarios in aerospace which
led to equipment failure, which took a lot of analysis. What automobile has a
flight recorder? At least there was some objective evidence. People are in
general not good at observing dispassionately - especially when headed toward
disaster.
regards, Rod
rod.dalitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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